HAVANA: With hundreds of people watching from the streets below, the so-called French Spiderman, Alain Robert, scaled the landmark Havana Libre hotel on Monday in a free climb that he said wasn't too hard.
He ascended the 27-storey hotel in about half an hour, pulling himself up from balcony to balcony and pausing occasionally to exhort applause from the crowds that lined the surrounding streets in Havana's Vedado district.
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