The French Spiderman

How is this for a lifestyle ? Beats binge drinking any day.

I think I have either seen, heard of or read about every single miraculous feat accomplished by humans in my time. It seems impossible to isolate any one of these unbelievable feats as being special. But I must personally choose the exploits of Alain Robert, the French Spiderman as the most outstanding and daring personality I have ever seen.

He has climbed almost every one of the world`s tallest buildings freestyle, without ropes or any safety equipment. Just his fingers, French chalk and feet. In all this death defying activity, he suffers from Epilepsy and has to take daily medication.

To give examples of Alain`s accomplishments would be impossible. You must surf the web and read them for yourself, plus video`s and lots of photo`s.

I have some small experience of being subjected to great heights, since for many years I took part in skydiving as a sport with military and civilian clubs and to see this man standing on the very spire of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur without any support and waving his arms about at 1,483 feet high, most probably with a significant wind force, gives me the shudders.

And when he has climbed these buildings, he has to climb down again to a point where he can enter the building via a door or window or even have to climb back down to ground level. The police are always waiting to arrest him, but a few days in jail and Alain is free again.

Here is a shot of him after climbing the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia enjoying his success on the top of the spire. A helicopter is seen flying way below him. I would think that Alain was very concerned about prop wash in addition to the wind force at that height..

[Kymmy]

The guys an idiot, between trespassing and endangering others (just look at 9/11 to see what a falling body can do to another) he's just a media hogging (insert best banned expletive here)

Originally Posted by Kymmy

The guys an idiot, between trespassing and endangering others (just look at 9/11 to see what a falling body can do to another) he's just a media hogging (insert best banned expletive here)

You appear to be a super intelligent extraordinaire with an adverse answer to every aspect of life on Planet Earth. Is there any human or natural activity which meets with your distinguished approval ?

I would remind you that guys who walk around on girders erecting skyscrapers fall to Earth in their accumulative hundreds worldwide and they do not all wear safety harnesses.

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by Wittmann

I would remind you that guys who walk around on girders erecting skyscrapers fall to Earth in their accumulative hundreds worldwide and they do not all wear safety harnesses.

Try doing that in the UK and see how long you last in the job before H&S violations force you out of it. This isn't the early 20th century where hot rivets were thrown up multiple stories and people sat on unfinished girders eating lunch, instead there's safety nets, safety officers and safe workers.

I'm puzzled as to why you feel the need to attack those that don't agree with you in a pathetic I'm more intelligent than you attitude? Anyone would thing that you're compensating for something all the time??

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

Try doing that in the UK and see how long you last in the job before H&S violations force you out of it. This isn't the early 20th century where hot rivets were thrown up multiple stories and people sat on unfinished girders eating lunch, instead there's safety nets, safety officers and safe workers.

I'm puzzled as to why you feel the need to attack those that don't agree with you in a pathetic I'm more intelligent than you attitude? Anyone would thing that you're compensating for something all the time??

Don't waste your breath Kymmy, he's already had a go at me despite the fact that I've more than 35 years of electronic and software engineering expertise and run my own successful design consultancy with many satisfied clients.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

I'm puzzled as to why you feel the need to attack those that don't agree with you in a pathetic I'm more intelligent than you attitude? Anyone would thing that you're compensating for something all the time??

Get used to it Kymmy its his thing.

He creates a thread, then waits for responces. He will then try the i am better than you attitude before moving on to the next thread. Rinse and repeat

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Don't waste your breath Kymmy, he's already had a go at me despite the fact that I've more than 35 years of electronic and software engineering expertise and run my own successful design consultancy with many satisfied clients.

Are you one of those he put on ignore after the last thread

Originally Posted by Kymmy

Try doing that in the UK and see how long you last in the job before H&S violations force you out of it. This isn't the early 20th century where hot rivets were thrown up multiple stories and people sat on unfinished girders eating lunch, instead there's safety nets, safety officers and safe workers.

I'm puzzled as to why you feel the need to attack those that don't agree with you in a pathetic I'm more intelligent than you attitude? Anyone would thing that you're compensating for something all the time??

I apologise Kymmy, sorry for that, but it seems like everything I post is massacred immediately.

I realise that Alain`s fetish is not for everybody and it poses a risk for those on the ground, but the guy is a very unique personality with an extreme dose of bravery unmatched by anybody.

To suggest he does it for media exposure is unfair. He does it because he enjoys it. If it was media exposure, there are better and safer ways of doing it.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Wittmann

I apologise Kymmy, sorry for that,

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Sirius

Are you one of those he put on ignore after the last thread

No, but I probably am now. I can live with that.

Topic, to return to it: I think the French guy is just an adrenaline junky, if he wasn't getting his kicks this way he'd probably be free climbing El Capitan without safety ropes. Sooner or later he'll fall and if we're lucky it'll be curtains.

[Gary L]

I think he's great. and Kymmy maybe a little bit (insert best banned expletive here) jealous

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by Sirius

Are you one of those he put on ignore after the last thread

Think I am .

I miss his pleasant replies.

Cheers

Grim

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by Wittmann

I realise that Alain`s fetish is not for everybody and it poses a risk for those on the ground, but the guy is a very unique personality with an extreme dose of bravery unmatched by anybody.

To suggest he does it for media exposure is unfair. He does it because he enjoys it. If it was media exposure, there are better and safer ways of doing it.

In your image he's stood on top in a precarious position and waving his arms (I presume at those watching him) if that's not media whoring then I don't know what is? Along with his website and the buildings he's legally climbed I beg to uphold my suggestion. Why doesn't he just do it, take a picture from the top then just vanish instead of waving to the crowd. It also begs the question as to why he wasn't the first up El Capitan... He's fixated on climbing where he shouldn't climb, nothing more and nothing less

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth

Think I am .

I miss his pleasant replies.

Cheers

Grim

To all you kind posters. Water on a duck`s back to me. You know what I think of your uneducated rants and compliments ?

[Kymmy]

No wonder you only have one friend.. and no guesses who that is..

You're just being rude are just plain rude and don't seem to care