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• With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

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• Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

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• We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

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• Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

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• People need to learn to live with more risk.

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• I see myself as a climber and an activist.

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• I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

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• I don’t want to follow the herd.

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• I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

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• We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

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• I feel completely alone – it’s like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

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• If you’ve climbed the first 140 meters it doesn’t mean that you’ve succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

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• Life has to be dangerous.

   

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• There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

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• I enjoy every climb – maybe it’s because it’s a literal dance between life and death.

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• It’s a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can’t.

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• To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it’s part of my life.

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• When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent’s apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

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• Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it’s interesting.

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• When I climb a building, I’ve been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

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Alain Robert (27)

Birth:	7th August, 1962
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Rock Climber

About

Alain Robert, is a French rock and urban climber, from Digoin, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. Known as the French Spider-Man, or the Human Spider, Robert is famous for scaling skyscrapers using no climbing equipment except for a small bag of chalk and a pair of climbing shoes.

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