A climber known as the ‘French Spiderman’ has been arrested after scaling one of London’s tallest buildings.
Alain Robert ascended the 202-metre Salesforce Tower – formerly the Heron Tower – in the City of London without a rope or other safety equipment.
A hobby that started when he was 11 has taken Robert, now 56, to more than 150 skyscrapers around the world, including Dubai’s Burj Khalifa (the world’s tallest building), the Patronas Towers in Malaysia and the New York Times building in New York.
He often climbs without permission and has been arrested several times, sometimes for trespassing.
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