Exercise 2B, page 68.0:02
The french spider man.0:19
While no one is looking, Frenchman Alain Robert jumps up an office building and starts to climb the wall.0:34
He hangs from balconies, crawls along ledges and grips the edges of the glass and concrete.0:40
There's no rope and no safety net.0:47
He's using only his bare hands.0:49
By the time he's halfway up, a crowd has gathered on the pavement below.0:52
After an hour, he reaches the top and the crowd sighs with relief.0:57
Alen has climbed over 85 of the tallest structures in the world, including the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and the Petronas twin towers in Malaysia.1:02
One of his first climbs was at the age of 12.1:13
He didn't have his flat keys and his parents were out, but he was able to climb up the outside of the building, seven stories high and crawl through a window.1:16
Nowadays he can manage 80 storeys, but amazingly, Alain suffers from vertigo.1:26
He feels dizzy when he's up high.1:32
He has fallen seven times, suffering dozens of broken bones, which has left him partly disabled.1:34
But this doesn't stop Alain.1:40
I only think about what I can do, not what I can't do, he says.1:43
So why does he do it?1:48
Apart from raising awareness about world issues such as climate change, Alain wants people to see their environments differently.1:50
He maybe they think their building is ugly, this big tower with lots of glass, the opposite of a natural landscape.1:58
But for me, it's a kind of urban mountain.2:06
So I use the place where they work and I make it a kind of wonderland.2:09
Everywhere I climb, I see people who are happy.2:13
After a climb, Allen often leaves in handcuffs.2:17
What he does is sometimes illegal, but most of the time he just gets a fine.2:20
The police say he can't climb public buildings, but the only thing that stops this daredevil is rain.2:26
When it's wet, Allen can't grip the slippery surfaces.2:32
In 2002, he got stuck on the 35th floor of London's Canary Wharf Tower when it started to rain.2:36
Allen risks his life every time he climbs a new building.2:43
His nickname may be Spider man, but he is no superhero.2:47
He's just an ordinary man living a very dangerous life.2:51
You can see videos of Alen in action on YouTube.2:56
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