Alain Robert, or Spiderman as he is known due to his penchant for climbing skyscrapers, scaled one of the 400-ft Mercurial Towers in the Paris suburb of Bagnolet on Wednesday with no safety net, clamps or suction cups, just his bare hands and climbing shoes.
The 31-storey building will be his last climb before he must spend one week in a Texas prison for trespassing and possessing drugs and he was ascending the Tower in protest. He was arrested just before climbing the One Houston Center in November last year and was said to have had the sedative, Xanax, on his person, which he claimed was for epilepsy.
