Author Topic: The Real Life Spiderman (Read 454 times)

AcesGun · « **on:** July 31, 2003, 08:12:28 PM »

Theres a French guy around called Alain Robert or "Spiderman" that for no reason at all decides to climb very high buildings without any safety net or rope.

Hes climbed over 70 buildings which include some of the tallest buildings in the world.

Hes climbed...

- The Eiffel tower in Paris

- The Sears Tower in Chicago

- The Empire State Building in New York

- The Paramount Building in New York

- The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

- The Crown Plaza in Montreal

- The Canary Wharf Tower in London

- The Marriott Hotel in Varsovie

- The Opera House in Sydney

- The IBM Tower in Johannesburg

- The Nec Building in Hong Kong

And loads more without any safety equipment !!

His official site is...

HERE

And theres some articles and stuff about him brought to you by google.

HERE

Now hes just probably another crazy french guy but you really got to admire him for what he does, even if he is mad.

AcesGun · « **Reply #1 on:** July 31, 2003, 08:31:38 PM »

Some Pics . . .

mietla · « **Reply #2 on:** July 31, 2003, 08:32:03 PM »

this guy in nuts

udet · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2003, 09:03:11 PM »

cool guy

DiabloTX · « **Reply #4 on:** August 01, 2003, 06:23:01 AM »

I have a dizzying fear of heights and just looking at these pics gave me the heebie jeebies!!!:eek: This guys really has a set of brass ones.

Animal · « **Reply #5 on:** August 01, 2003, 06:30:32 AM »

He got beat up and thrown in jail when he climbed a building in China

gofaster · « **Reply #6 on:** August 01, 2003, 08:13:55 AM »

I believe he was arrested for the Empire Building climb a few years back, on the grounds of (a) trespassing, (b) disrupting the public peace, and (c) failing to obtain a permit for his performance art.

Maniac · « **Reply #7 on:** August 01, 2003, 08:16:37 AM »

He should quit while hes on top...

Dingbat · « **Reply #8 on:** August 01, 2003, 09:32:47 AM »

Any one got a banana peel or some wd-40

Sandman · « **Reply #9 on:** August 01, 2003, 12:45:55 PM »

Quote

To dare to fail!

A receipt to some extent to go further. To push back its own limits and this some is the field. For a long time, I noted that to go further, it was necessary for all to dare.

To dare: it is also to dare to fail.

The taking risk can be simply financial: large miser to take down the gold mine with can be the risk all to lose. But you reassure, it did not die there of man. Simply values hardware which leave in smoke. That can also result in the ridiculous one by taking the risk to receive tomatos in full figure.

Me, I am a player as everyone but I decided to dare with the good expensive: life. Fleurter with its own mental and physical limits for the success arrives then like a no-claims bonus, one second life, then a third and so on.

In my course of climbing which lasts now since more than one quarter century, I noted that larger was the risk, larger was the pleasure. Data which seem obsolete today in a world where one grants more and more credit to the money, the machines and the material goods. In all that, it seems difficult to rely on the human being.

Our society too quickly forgot that our sophisticated and infallible machines hyper are before all the work of the man makes flesh and of blood. My speech can seem ringard to see retrograde. But these some lines have of other goal only to recall that in spite of new technologies and their considerable contributions for our company, one should not forget the most incredible machine on this ground: ourselves.

Then is necessary it can be to relearn to dare because the man did not finish surprising us!!!

He's might be nuts... doesn't sound like he's nuts... but damn...

ccvi · « **Reply #10 on:** August 01, 2003, 01:15:25 PM »

When he's up there on some of those things, how does he get down, isn't that much more difficult?

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #11 on:** August 01, 2003, 01:28:19 PM »

Somewhere there is a life insurance salesman smiling.

mietla · « **Reply #12 on:** August 01, 2003, 02:21:01 PM »

Insurance salesman? no way. But the the guy who is cleaning sidewalks with a hose and the undertaker yeah.

Maybe even a lawyer or two.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #13 on:** August 01, 2003, 02:44:05 PM »

There is no such thing as a bad risk mietla, you just need to charge appropriately.