A free climber known as the "French Spiderman" scaled a 38-storey skyscraper in Paris on Wednesday to demonstrate his support for protesters angry about a pension law that will delay the age at which ...

Age is just a number — at least according to the "French Spider-Man." French free climber Alain Robert recently turned heads upward in Paris when he scaled a 48-story skyscraper to celebrate his 60th ...

Alain Robert, a free solo climber known as the “French Spider-Man,” celebrated his 60th birthday in a big way. Robert, who has climbed several large buildings in the world including the Burj Khalifa ...

STORY: Julien Robert joined his father to climb the 470-ft Torre Glories, formerly the Torre Agbar, a glass-fronted office building famed for its nighttime illuminations. Alain Robert, 60, told ...

Alain Robert has made headlines over the years for scaling structures like buildings and cliff faces with his bare hands. There are publicity stunts, and then there's this: free-climbing a ...

Last Thursday (June 5), renegade urban climber Alain Robert, 45, made the first-ever attempt on the 52-story New York Times building in midtown Manhattan in the name of global warming, only to be ...

LONDON — A French extreme free climber who calls himself Spider-Man and who has become famous for scaling buildings around the world climbed Heron Tower, the tallest building in London City’s square ...

His “spidey senses” called him to protest. Urban climber Alain Robert, aptly nicknamed the “French Spiderman,” scaled a 38-story skyscraper in Paris Wednesday in support of those protesting against a ...