The Incredible ‘French Spiderman’ Alain Robert climbs cliffs, mountains, gorges and skyscrapers… most often ‘without safety’. To date he has climbed more than 200 skyscrapers, including the world’s tallest, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, at almost 3000ft. His climbs invariably attract colossal global publicity and he is the only celebrity who is... Read more
The Incredible ‘French Spiderman’ Alain Robert climbs cliffs, mountains, gorges and skyscrapers… most often ‘without safety’. To date he has climbed more than 200 skyscrapers, including the world’s tallest, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, at almost 3000ft. His climbs invariably attract colossal global publicity and he is the only celebrity who is famous in literally every country on earth. If Alain climbs anywhere in the world… say Moscow, Sydney, Jakarta, or even Reykjavik or Timbuktu, etc… (It doesn’t matter where); that ascent will invariably be reported in ’all countries of the world’.
If one Google.com searches Alain Robert, the search returns over HALF A ‘BILLION’ results (547 million – See Google.com ‘snapshot’ report below – August 2022). For comparison, the same Google search of Hollywood Superstar George Clooney returns only 37 million results (One-fifteenth of the results for Alain Robert).
Alain is also officially world ranked in the ‘Top 100 Greatest Athletes of All Time’, alongside legends; Pele, Maradona, Muhammad Ali, Jack Nicklaus, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey and Jessie Owens, etc. In China they have even erected a bronze statue to French Spiderman Alain Robert. It is situated at the foot of Mount Tianmen, Hunan Province, China (See photo below).
A number of Alain’s climbs have attracted live audiences of 100,000 or more. His Sapphire Mall climb in Istanbul attracted a press and media turnout of more than 400 international journalists and the climb was also shown live on 4 TV stations in that region of the world.
With about 125 arrests to date, he is probably the world’s most arrested man. Alain’s amazing life moves between 10 Star Accommodation… as the special guest of Kings and Sheikhs; to spending time in the world’s most appalling ‘hell-hole’ prisons. Passionate about Climate Change, he has raised huge amounts of money for the good causes that he believes in. Alain is an extraordinary raconteur with a thousand real ‘life or death’ stories.
Over the years, Alain has been sponsored by many famous multi-national brands, including Zenith Watches (Switzerland), LVMH Group ‘Moët Hennesy Louis Vuitton’, Challeng’Hair, Halewood International, Dead Man’s Fingers, Zeppelin Watches, Sheikh Khalifa, Continental Tires, Sheikh Nayhan, Sheikh Maktoum, Sheikh Al-Thani, Point-Tec and many others.
Alain Robert has starred in many TV documentaries worldwide. He was the star (subject) of an episode of CNN’s ‘REVEALED SHOW’. It went to a world audience of 700 million people. The show is the preserve of global icons. Previous subjects have included; Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Francis Ford Coppola, Silvio Berlusconi, Dolce and Gabbana.
Alain Robert has climbed several times for Columbia Pictures, dressed as Spiderman, to promote the latest Spiderman movie release in various parts of the world. He starred in the Continental Tires 2019 worldwide advertising campaign. Also, his hit Netflix documentary ‘My Next Challenge’ won a number of international awards (Winner: Reale Film Festival, Tokyo Film Festival, New York Cinema Awards).
Alain Robert is very experienced motivational, keynote, after-dinner and Zoom speaker. He has spoken at conventions for dozens of global companies including – Bristol Myers Squibb, L’Oreal, Goodyear Tyres, HSBC, MIPMI (Cannes), Continental Tires, QI Group, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, MLM (Kuala Lumpur), Abu Dhabi Men’s College and Women’s College, Biarritz (France), DHL, UBS (New York), UBS (Hong Kong), UBS (Singapore), CTBUH (Mumbai), Singapore, Kievstar (Ukraine) Bratislava Festival, JUUL (With Arnold Schwarzenegger), MEFMA Conference (With Donald Trump), Banff (Scotland), Occitane (France), Challeng’Hair (Paris), Unilever, Russell Investments (Edinburgh and Seattle), GP Bullhound, Feedzai SA, Moet, Hennessy, Luis Vuitton, Citywire, Pepsi, Bayer, Volkwagen, Zenith of Switzerland, Wella, Dead Man’s Fingers etc. Education without Borders (Dubai) 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 (With Tony Blair), 2013 and many more…
2020 Oscar winning climber Alex Honnold rates Alain as the best climber who ever lived.