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French Spiderman
NIMI KURIAN
Photo: AFP
ALAIN ROBERT: Scaling the Petronas Twin Towers.
A French daredevil climber who has scaled skyscrapers around the world without ropes was arrested in Malaysia recently as he tried to clamber up the world's tallest twin towers. Alain Robert, 44, known as the "French Spiderman", slipped past security guards at the 88-storey Petronas Twin Towers and reached the 60th floor before giving himself up. "It's a great view from here. There is so much action and it is funny to see people inside the offices staring at me," Robert told Reuters by phone as he climbed the glass-panelled structure. Midway through his climb it was like a scene from an action movie with Robert hanging on a ledge on the 35th floor as a police helicopter hovered nearby. Hundreds of onlookers, many taking pictures with their camera phones, cheered him on. But a team of firemen and policemen finally stopped him and ordered him to re-enter the building through an opening on the 60th floor.
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