Frenchman Alain Robert climbed a 52-story in New York to protest against global warming yesterday.
French buildering specialist Alain Robert has bagged his latest artficial summit, the New York Times Building in New York, remarkably, just hours later, a local man copied him and bagged the second ascent of the building.
Robert, known as Spiderman, unfurled a banner reading 'Global warming kills more people than a 9/11 every week' as he crimped up the 52-storey office tower before being arrested when he reached the top using ceramic rods as holds.
Just hours later, he was followed by a local man from Brooklyn, who was also arrested as he topped out. The Sun reports that he tired as he climbed and police even dangled a rope towards him.
Here's Alain Robert in action...
And here's some footage of the second man climbing. Robert is a professional climber who prepares meticuously for his stunts, but the second man appears to have been a copycat climber.
