Spiderman! Alain Robert likes skyscrapers, but he doesn't just like looking at them, as most people do. He prefers Climbing them. Last Friday he was in Abu Dhabi. where he climbed up the Investment Authority Building. It took him just 63 minutes to climb the 35 storeys. He was watched by thousands of people in the car park below. The French spiderman, as he is called, has climbed some of the world's highest buildings, including the Empire State Building in New York and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. He surprised some workers at the Canary Wharf skyscraper in London, when he knocked on the window and asked for a drink. Alain has often been in trouble with the police, as he's usually breaking the law when he climbs things. He's been in prison in several countries. When he reached the top of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the police were waiting for him and arrested him. He started climbing after he saw a film about mountaineering when he was a young boy. When he was 12, he came home from school one day and found that he was locked out. So he climbed up the outside of the apartment block and climbed in through a window- on the seventh floor. Later, when he got bored with climbing mountains, he looked for something more dangerous. He doesn't use any ropes or safety nets, and he doesn't wear a helmet. He just uses his own hands and feet. He's had a few accidents, and he's broken several bones, including his skull. So why does the married father of three do it? 'I'm not really interested in the fame. but like the danger, he says. 'I'm a gambler and I gamble with my life. So far I've been lucky, but I know that one day 'll lose.