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HONG KONG: A French urban climber who calls himself ``Spiderman'' scaled a 62-storey, 283 metre-high Hong Kong skyscraper barehanded today. Wearing only a pair of red pants, Alain Robert, 42, from Valence, south-eastern France, scrambled up the downtown Cheung Kong Centre — the flagship building of Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing — in about an hour. During the climb the Frenchman rested several times and even answered a reporter's phone calls. ``I can't talk to you right now. I'm climbing,'' said Robert, renowned for scaling buildings without ropes or other equipment. After reaching the top of the building, he waved to a small crowd of spectators on the ground below. He said he was greeted by police, firefighters and security guards at the top. Police officers checked his passport but did not arrest him, even though he had not sought permission to climb the building. ``Everyone was very nice,'' Robert said, adding that the climb was not too difficult. ``I slipped only once,'' he said. ``On a scale of one to 10 in terms of difficulty, this would be a five. I really enjoyed the ascent.'' — AP
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