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Experience: I climb skyscrapers
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 16 days ago
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Got no strings to hold me down: Alain Robert, aka Spiderman, says, 'Every building I conquer gives me the sense of having been reborn.' Photograph: Lorena Ros The seed was planted almost 40 years ago, when I saw a film called The Grieving Snow.
Tags: Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Petronas Twin Towers, Alain Robert
French 'Spiderman' fined for climbing on Petronas tower
Paris :: France | 2 months ago
Credibility Dressed in dark grey pants and a teal jacket, he was brought into the dock in handcuffs. The 47-year-old was fined the amount in default of two months jail at the KL magistrate's court on Wednesday, The Star reports. The fine was set by magistrate Siti...
Tags: Alain Robert, petronas tower, Malaysian, Spiderman
"Spidey" fined RM2,000 for trespassing Petronas Twin Towers
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 3 months ago
Credibility French Spiderman Robert Alain Philippe was fined RM2,000 after he pleaded guilty to criminal trespass for scaling the Petronas Twin Towers. The 47-year-old was fined the amount in default of two months jail at the KL magistrate's court on Wednesday.
Tags: Alain Robert, Malaysian, Petronas Twin Towers, Spiderman, Mr Robert, Robert Alain Philippe, Kuala Lumpur, landmark buildings, climbed malaysia, Petronas Towers
'Spiderman' fined for scaling skyscraper
Sydney :: Australia | 6 months ago
Credibility A French climber nicknamed "Spiderman" was fined 750 dollars ($615) Wednesday for scaling a Sydney skyscraper without permission. Alain Robert made his way up the 219-metre (718-foot) Aurora Place building without safety ropes or a harness on Tuesday...
Tags: Alain Robert, Sydney, CBD
French 'Spiderman' scales Hong Kong skyscraper
Hong Kong :: China | 9 months ago
Credibility Police arrested Mr Robert at the top of the 62-storey Cheung Kong Centre, but he was later released without charge. He unfurled a banner during his climb, naming a website that claims to be counting down the number of months left to save the planet from...
Tags: Hong Kong, Alain Robert
‘Spiderman’ climbs hotel in Doha
Joyce C Abano reports from Doha DOHA: Clad in a Spiderman costume, French rock and urban climber Alain Robert enthralled close to two thousand spectators at the La Cigale Hotel as he climbed up the 100-metre building. Cheers and whistles erupted from...
Tags: alain robert, climbs
Grand jury won't indict skyscraper climber
Taipei :: Taiwan | about 1 year ago
Credibility A Manhattan grand jury has refused to indict a French daredevil who scaled the 52-story New York Times building to draw attention to global warming. The grand jury has, however, directed prosecutors to file Criminal Court charges on two counts of disorderly...
Tags: alain robert, grand jury, Alain Robert Alain Robert, disorderly conduct
Lawyer: NYC should honor French skyscraper climber
Manhattan :: KS :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A French daredevil in trouble for scaling a skyscraper to press for action on global warming should be honored instead of prosecuted, his lawyer said Wednesday. Alain Robert, one of two men who climbed the 52-story New York Times building on the same...
Tags: Alain Robert, times building, New York Times, Manhattan, global warming
French 'Spider Man' charged in latest New York stunt
São Paulo :: Brazil | about 1 year ago
Credibility Alain Robert, best known as the "French Spider Man" for climbing buildings and monuments around the world, was charged in a Manhattan court Friday and released on parole for scaling the New York Times skyscraper, court officials said. Robert, 45, was...
Tags: spider man, Alain Robert, New York Times
France's Spiderman upstaged
Paris :: France | about 1 year ago
Credibility Just hours after Alain Robert, 45, became the first person to scale the 52-floor building, another climber made an apparent copycat ascent...His manager Julie Cohen said she knew nothing about the second climber: "I'm mortified, he's absolutely nothing...
Tags: climbs, New York Times, times building, Alain Robert
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