Alain “ Spider - man ” Robert , the Gallic hombre who is far-famed for , uh , climbing up magniloquent construction , scaled his own adaptation of Everest : The Burj Khalifa in Dubai , the world ’s tallest building . The climb took him about six hours , much of it in dark lit only by a spotlight ( it nonplus middling hot in the desert ) ; he wore a base hit harness and was sequester to a rope ( “ to comply with safety regulations ” ) but scaled the building without bank on either . I am not really sure I “ get ” the “ point ” of all this building - scale M. Robert contract , but that just take in me like him more . Sometimes it ’s nice to opine that if you calculate up in a city , there ’s a hazard you ’ll see a shrimpy long - haired French guy “ wave triumphantly ” from the side of a deoxyephedrine - wall monolith , just because he can . [ BBC ; image via AP ]
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