A French daredevil urban climber on March 28 scaled the world’s tallest building, the 828m Burj Khalifa in Dubai, fighting winds that delayed his ascent for hours.
Alain Robert, 48, who is also known as the French Spiderman, took about six hours to climb the more than 160-storey building, using a rope and harness as required by organizers.
But he said the safety precautions and the attention from a crowd that had gathered to watch made him more nervous.
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“Actually there is huge pressure on me because I know that they have installed everything there; this is for me. There is a giant screen, 50m high, 30m long. I know everybody is going to look at me so it’s a bit of — a lot of — stress in fact,” Robert said before the climb.
Robert has been arrested many times in various countries as authorities rarely give permission for his dangerous climbs.
Robert first climbed a building at the age of 12 when he got locked out of his apartment and decided to mount the eight stories up to an open window.
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He has since climbed more than 80 buildings around the world, including Chicago’s Sears Tower and Taipei 101 in Taiwan.
(REUTERS)
一位藝高人膽大的法國都會攀爬者，三月二十八日攀登高八百二十八公尺的世界第一高樓杜拜哈里發塔。因為起風的因素，讓其攀爬時間延後數小時。
現年四十八歲的阿藍‧羅伯特，又名法國蜘蛛人，應主辦單位要求使用繩索和保護帶的裝備下，花了將近六小時才登上這棟超過一百六十層的大樓。
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不過，他說，安全防護和眾目睽睽，反而讓他更緊張。
羅伯特在攀爬前說，「其實我感到龐大壓力，因為我知道他們在那裡安置所有的設備。現場還架設一面五十公尺高、三十公尺長的巨大銀幕。就是因為我知道每個人將會盯著我看，所以我感到有點─事實上是許多─壓力。」
因有關當局鮮少核准他的危險攀爬行為，羅伯特已多次在不同國家遭逮捕。
羅伯特在十二歲那年首度攀爬大樓，當時因遭鎖在他家公寓外，於是他決定爬上八層樓高的建築物打開窗戶。
自那年起，他已經攀爬全球超過八十棟大樓，其中包含芝加哥的「希爾斯大樓」以及台灣的「台北101」。
（路透／翻譯：林亞蒂）
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