French 'Spiderman' Alain Robert.

He has become famous for scaling the world's tallest buildings without using ropes or safety harnesses.

Robert started climbing aged 11 and has scaled more than 60 buildings around the world.

Here he climbs Malaysia's Petronas Towers, in his third attempt on the nation's tallest structure, in Kuala Lumpur on September 1, 2009.

Robert climbs a 33 floor building in Jakarta in November 2008.

He scales the outside of the Phoenicia Intercontinental Hotel during a promotional event in Beirut in October 2008.

Robert waves from the top of the Four Seasons Hotel (215m) in Hong Kong in April 2008.


Climbing Hotel Puerta America in Madrid, Spain, in February 2008.

Roberts speaks to authorities who refused to let him climb the 242m Federation tower in Moscow, Russia in 2007.