Alain Robert

Spiderman’s power to climb skyscrapers and bridges is often left to young boys’ imaginations. Yet for Alain Robert, he is bringing the folklore to front page news. Using no equipment, only his hands and feet, he scales buildings with ease.  

Have you ever got anxiety just by simply looking at skyscrapers? Then you’d be in amazement from a man by the name of Alain Robert, who is from France. Alain Robert’s career revolves around the extreme sport of climbing tall skyscrapers free handed. These types of stunts are usually illegal, and thus Alain has dealt [...]  

Robert scaled the recently-heightened First tower in La Defense business district west of Paris on Thursday, as hundreds of onlookers peered out of its windows or craned their necks as he went up.  

Mr Robert, 47, scaled the 88-storey Tower 2, triumphantly unfurling a Malaysian flag as he stood on its 1,483ft pinnacle (452m) on the country's national day. He took just over two hours to reach the top after setting off in darkness before dawn to avoid ...  

Alain Robert, who has been dubbed as the 'French Spiderman', scaled the recently heightened First tower in La Defense business district west of Paris on Thursday. May 11, 2012 - Washington Alain Robert, who has been dubbed as the 'French Spiderman', scaled ...  

May 10, 2012: People look out of their windows as French urban climber Alain Robert, known as 'Spiderman', climbs up the 758 feet high First Tower, the tallest skyscraper in France, outside Paris.AP PARIS – The French skyscraper climber known ...  

PARIS (AP) - The French skyscraper climber known to some as Spiderman has struck again: This time, on Frances new tallest building. Alain Robert scaled the recently heightened First tower in La Defense business district west of Paris on Thursday.  

Robert spoke to Reuters as he prepared for the climb and said ... pioneering attempts of such kind including the Empire State Building, Chicago's Willis Tower, and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and Burj Khalifa, the world tallest building in Dubai.  

A French free-climber known as 'spider man' climbed one of Jakarta's tallest buildings on Sunday (March 25) - but not in his usual style. Alain Robert scaled the 50-storey Bakrie Tower using suction cups and a safety harness after authorities banned him ...  

Alain Robert, the self-styled French Spiderman climbed the tallest building in France, with the “permission of its owners,” a first in his career on Thursday. Robert scaled the First Tower in the La Defense business district, west of Paris with bare ...  

But this isn't a first-time stunt for the French rock and urban climber, Alain Robert. He has also scaled the Empire State Building in the US and a building in Dubai. Renowned for climbing properties without permission, he continues to defy the odds - and ...  

Urban climber Alain Robert, known as “the French Spiderman”, scaled his country’s tallest building, La Tour First. At euronews we believe in the intelligence of our viewers and we think that the mission of a news channel is to deliver ...  

Alain Robert climbed the 50-storey Bakrie Tower in Jakarta, Indonesia using suction cups and a safety harness, after police banned him from climbing with his bare hands. Two years ago the 49-year-old tried to scale Indonesia's Wisma Mulia Tower bare-handed ...  

Urban climber Alain Robert, known as "the French Spiderman", scaled his country's tallest building on Thursday. Having climbed more than 100 skyscrapers and monuments across the world, Robert set his sights on the 231-metre First Tower at La Defence ...  

Although it was Alain Menu that was initially quickest, with only seconds remaining Robert Huff and Yvan Muller both eked out slender advantages over their teammate to complete the session with yet another Chevrolet 1-2-3. Gabriele Tarquini, who has been ...