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29 March 2024

French Spiderman climbs Bucharest hotel

Famous urban climber Alain Robert, 48, a self-styled "French Spiderman". (AFP)

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The self-styled "French Spiderman" on Friday climbed up one of Bucharest's tallest buildings, the Hotel Intercontinental, as part of a publicity campaign.
 
Alain Robert, 48, crawled up balcony after balcony of the 22-storey building, using a rope and a harness.
 
Some two hundred Bucharesters watched from the sidewalk below, cheering and taking pictures.
 
But he stopped several metres before reaching the top in order to deploy a banner advertising a Romanian retailer.
 
"It was quite spectacular, but I would have liked to see him go all the way to the top," a housewife accompanied by her four-year-old daughter, said.
 
Robert has climbed more than 100 of the world's tallest buildings, including the 828-metre Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Sears Tower in the US city of Chicago and the 88-storey Jin Mao Building in Shanghai, China.