Alain Robert, the free climber dubbed the French “Spiderman” has scaled a 48-storey skyscraper in Paris to mark his sixtieth birthday.
Dressed in crimson, Robert celebrated as he reached the highest of the 613ft (187 metre) Tour TotalEnergies constructing, within the French capital’s La Defense enterprise district.
“I want to send people the message that being 60 is nothing. You can still do sport, be active, do fabulous things,” he mentioned.
“I promised myself several years ago that when I reached 60, I would climb that tower again because 60 symbolises retirement age in France and I thought that was a nice touch.”
Robert, who additionally needed to make use of the climb to lift consciousness in regards to the want for local weather change motion, had already climbed the TotalEnergies tower on quite a few events.
He started climbing in 1975, coaching on the cliffs close to his hometown of Valence in southern France.
He took up solo climbing in 1977.
Since then, he has climbed greater than 150 towering constructions all over the world together with Dubai’s Burj Khalifa – the world’s tallest constructing, the Eiffel Tower, and San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
Often climbing with out permission, he has been arrested repeatedly.
Robert climbs with no harness, utilizing solely his naked palms, a pair of climbing footwear, and a bag of powdered chalk to wipe off the sweat.
Source: information.sky.com”