shamelessgearwhore Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 Damn check this guy out! Read his accomplishments on his personal web page. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=War%20Spiderman his site - http://www.funadventure.com/members/alainrobert/indexuk.htm mf crazy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 funny, there was just a tv special on the guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegetablebelay Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 WOW! Thanks for showing up here just to tell us about it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 dumb ass ... what if he falls off and takes out a couple of school kids? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 agreed. another idiot Freedom dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 This is the guy that once climbed up one of the Golden Gate Bridge's vertical quad-cable deck supports and got stuck halfway up. I can't remember how he got down. Maybe this was elucidated on that TV special. A picture of the deck supports I'm talking about can be seen here (coming down at upper left side of image): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek_the_Greek Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 Only guy to free solo .13c for a long time. Has anyone surpassed this? (maybe bouldery cruxes near the ground with crashpads, if those count...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 Yeah, here he is within those cable supports (look midway up the first support left of the stanchion): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 in the show (I only saw part of it) he had to be rescued twice from this building in Montreal: apparently it got too humid or hot and the white surface reflected too much heat back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexual_chocolate Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 Geek_the_Greek said: Only guy to free solo .13c for a long time. Has anyone surpassed this? (maybe bouldery cruxes near the ground with crashpads, if those count...) What was Robert's 13c solo like? I heard he did a 13d solo too, but don't know anything about it. Someone just soloed Body Count(?) at American Fork, 13d. Everything there is quite short though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamelessgearwhore Posted April 1, 2003 Author Share Posted April 1, 2003 Read the "throughout the world" link. It looks like he has gotten pretty close to the highest buildings on all continents. To complete this he would just need to make a trip to McMurdo and climb the highest building there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 sexual_chocolate said: Geek_the_Greek said: Only guy to free solo .13c for a long time. Has anyone surpassed this? (maybe bouldery cruxes near the ground with crashpads, if those count...) What was Robert's 13c solo like? I heard he did a 13d solo too, but don't know anything about it. Someone just soloed Body Count(?) at American Fork, 13d. Everything there is quite short though. Didn't Huber just solo a .13c? Yes, yes he did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek_the_Greek Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 I remember reading stories of Alain Robert soloing all sorts of 13's in the late '80s. They were kind of wierd - like, he would go out on a picnic with his family, kids in tow, and would calmly solo these hard lines above them. I think that French book "Le huitieme degre" (the eighth degree - probably referring to 8a French grades, .13b or so) had some cool photos and descriptions. Sounds like all he does is buildings these days... wierd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 ALAIN ROBERTS | GRIMPEUR DE L'EXTREME Oh meseur lll out grimpeur you any day, you ssstupid emearllican an yourll freedum fries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexual_chocolate Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 Geek_the_Greek said: Sounds like all he does is buildings these days... Golden buildings in the sky, I think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek_the_Greek Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 Ya, the web site could use some work... "If I am still in life today, I owe it with this fear which tortures me the belly before climbing...." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 yes but I bet he would surrender at a fireworks show like all frenchies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted April 2, 2003 Share Posted April 2, 2003 Alex Huber soloed 13d...not 13c. Dani Andrada soloed a 14b (Archipel) , although its a boulder crux and "only" mid 5.13 above the first 15 feet... Klem Loskot deep water soloed a 14a with a 60' splashdown off the lip. Hell I'm scared to jump off a 10m high diving board let alone double that height... I did do a 25m cliff dive once but I was drunk and it scared me sober. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attitude Posted April 2, 2003 Share Posted April 2, 2003 iain said: in the show (I only saw part of it) he had to be rescued twice from this building in Montreal: apparently it got too humid or hot and the white surface reflected too much heat back. Umm, that's La Defense in Paris. France. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen Posted April 2, 2003 Share Posted April 2, 2003 So it goes... PARIS (Reuters) - A self-styled Spiderman defied strong winds to scale a 47-storey Paris skyscraper without safety equipment on Tuesday to protest the war in Iraq (news - web sites). Frenchman Alain Robert had onlooking office workers and police on tenterhooks as he slowly worked his way up the 180 meter-high TotalFinaElf skyscraper in the La Defense business center in the west of the city. "It's as mad as the war itself," said Fatisha Amraoui, nervously puffing on a cigarette as she watched Robert climb. "I think it'll take more than this to make an impression on Bush and Blair, but it's good all the same. It makes you think." Robert reached the top in about 45 minutes, winning cheers and applause from a small crowd gathered below. "The war that the Americans and the British are waging is illegal," Robert, holding up a "No War" banner, told reporters after being escorted by police back down the building -- using a lift. Polls show the French overwhelmingly oppose the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Robert has several arrests and minor charges to his name for climbing skyscrapers and other landmarks. His tally includes the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Empire State Building in New York, the 54-floor Shinjuku Tower in Tokyo and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willstrickland Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 I heard some dude from Tahoe (Mark Miller I think) just soloed Grand Illusion, once the hardest crack climb, and perhaps the hardest climb in the States period when it went up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Yeah, but it takes an artiste of the the extreme to come up with lines like: Me, I am a player as everyone but I decided to dare with the good expensive: life. Fleurter with its own mental and physical limits for the success arrives then like a no-claims bonus, one second life, then a third and so on. Me, I am a player... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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