Cheung Kong Climb

Alain "Spiderman" Robert has scaled the 290-metre Cheung Kong Center, his second Hong Kong skyscraper.

View large image Robert climbed the Far East Finance Centre in Wan Chai in 1996. But he ruled out attempting the Two IFC building because security staff could easily stop him at a ledge half-way up Hong Kong's tallest building.

He used no ropes, gloves or suction gear. Just thinking about free-climbing a skyscraper makes my palms sweaty.

Don't be surprised if Robert comes back to climb the 102-storey, 474-metre (1,555-foot) Union Square Phase 7 building when it's completed in 2007.

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