At 55, 'French Spider-man' keeps climbing world's skyscrapers


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  • Saturday, 17 Mar 2018

PARIS: Alain Robert (pic), sometimes known as the "French Spider-man" for climbing skyscrapers worldwide, is still defying gravity at the age of 55.

He scaled the summit of the fourth-tallest building in Paris' modern business district on Wednesday after evading security officers who had thwarted an earlier attempt.

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