Tourists flock to Dubai just to see the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest structure. Alain Robert went to climb it. The Frenchman, known as Spiderman, has scaled more than 70 skyscrapers.
Alain Robert is an “urban climber” from France who has a habit of climbing tall structures. This time, he scaled to the very top of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. He completed the amazing climb in 6 hours and thankfully, this time, he used a safety harness and a rope.
Nicknamed “spiderman”, Alain has climbed everything from the Empire State Building to the Taipei 101, the world’s tallest building at the time of the climb. Pretty amazing guy.
Unusually, he used a rope and harness, to comply with safety requirements.
"I know that sometimes there may be some specific requirements," he told Reuters news agency before the climb.
"I do understand. You know, this is such an iconic building so I can understand that even though they are taking care so much about my precious life, they are also taking care a lot of that precious Burj Khalifa."
Robert, 48, has scaled more than 70 skyscrapers, including New York's Empire State Building and Chicago's Willis Tower in the US, and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, according to his website.
In 2004, he climbed Taiwan's Taipei 101, the world's tallest building at the time.
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