Overcoming Challenges

Alain Robert is the world’s leading free climber and is known all over the as the ‘French Spiderman’ and the ‘Urban Climber’. He is internationally renowned for having ascended over 100 skyscrapers without ropes. In 2011, he climbed Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world. Robert uses his bold ascents, to raise funds for charity. Spiderman Alain Robert is one of the most famous men on earth. His legendary feats, climbing 200 of the world’s tallest buildings ‘with his bare hands’ have brought him celebrity status in 150 countries. In 1997, he climbed without authorization the world’s tallest skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur. The impact on the media was so great that Sabah Foundation asked him to climb its building in Borneo. With government authorization, the event grew enormously, drawing a crowd of 15,000 people and raising over US$150,000. These days, Alain is fast becoming one of the world’s most inspirational and compelling ‘Motivational, Keynote, Risk and After-dinner’ speakers too; having given talks internationally for a number of global corporations.