Urban climber Alain Robert, aptly nicknamed the “French Spiderman,” scaled a 38-story skyscraper in Paris in support of those protesting against a deeply unpopular pension law.
His “spidey senses” called him to protest.
“I’m here to tell Emmanuel Macron to come back down to earth … by climbing with no safety net,” Robert said. Robert has scaled more than 150 towering structures worldwide, including Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which is the world’s tallest building.
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