‘French Spiderman’ scales Agbar Tower
A crowd of more than two hundred could only gape in amazement as celebrity, sky-scraper climber, Alain Robert, better known as the ‘French Spiderman’, took only an hour an half to ascend and descend the 140 metre, thirty-storey Torre Agbar in Barcelona’s Plaza de las Glorias yesterday.
Robert, who first climbed the tower designed by architect, Jean Nouvel, last August, was unable to celebrate his feat for long as he was quickly whisked away by a pair of regional police officers waiting for him on the ground.
During a prolific and precarious career, Robert, who spurns the use of safety equipment of any kind, has conquered more than seventy landmark buildings and monuments including the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State building, Sydney Opera House, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and the tallest building in China and the fourth in the world; Shanghai’s Jin Mao Tower.
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