Spiderman to Scale World's Tallest Building
 

TAIPEI (Reuters) - French "Spiderman" Alain Robert, a dare-devil climbing ace, plans to scale the world's tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, in the Taiwan capital on Christmas Day, the building's management said Friday. >>>
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Pretty cool....

SHut up with your Spiderman shit, what the fuck did you get me for Xmas?

That building is way cool

hahaha....when are we getting together?

he will fail like usual

:uhoh Well good luck to him.

Hope he does it, it would be impressive

This man is amazing I hope nothing happens too him...

When did Taiwan get the largest building in the world?

He did it in 4 hours... Crazy bastard if you ask me

yeah , just read about it, he did it with FULL PROTECTION nothin crazy about it


only difficult

Stop fucking whining already, you jealous bitch. It's not like you could do that stuff yourself, so commenting on what he did as if it's not impressive looks fucking pathetic.

Yeah, I've been in it, just looking up at it is amazing.

The building started in '99. It was completely finished this year.

well he took on the Sears Tower, so he has a chance

There's never really such thing as "full protection" when you're climibing. Being belayed via a climbing harness is nowhere near full protection.
Good protection is 2 ropes, shunts, ascenders, and a chest harness.
Full protection is called an elevator.

Incidently, to spread the spirit of Christmas last night, I went for a little climb / abseil myself ->
The mark was / is a bridge, not that tall, but tall enough. Wanted to string some lights on the cross girder. Tapped power from the streetlights, clibmed to the top fo the bridge and abseiled to the beam, installed the lights, and called it a night.
The results ->
http://kweks.brisurbex.com/mei/uploads/xmas.jpg
http://kweks.brisurbex.com/mei/uploads/xmas2.jpg

View from the top->
http://quantum-x.ice.org/photos/Abov.../qx-condor.jpg
http://quantum-x.ice.org/photos/Abov...x-condor-3.jpg

Lasted 2 nights, and a big fucken storm so far :D

You did this? Seriously..

seriously ;) they certainly didn't magic themselves up there lol

That is a cool building. I think that guy has some serious issues. Why would any self respecting man who is married with kid(s) do something so fool hardy? If he was single I could understand a little more. Anybody know how many times he has been arrested and why he is still married?

getting arrested isn't the end of the world.
And in this context w/ his skills, I don't know how different the risks would be to, say driving a racing car, or any other extreme sport.

What does this all have to do with marriage? Driving a car is a risk everyday in getting into an accident .....