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I have been climbing
now for nearly 45 years,

I have had plenty of problems,
plenty of failure.

I don't use anything special,
just using my bare hands.

I'm using some chalk as well,

these are the only
things I'm using.

My life,
it's based on moving forward.

Something,
you know that makes me dream,

you know,
I need to feel this thrill of...

there is something
around the corner.

My next challenge:

climbing 200
buildings before I retire.

I love Manilla,
it's a vibrant city.

I came here twenty
years back and...

I am having nice memories.

There wasn't any tall buildings,

so now I am kind of on a mission

to climb one of the tallest
buildings in Philippines.

Each time I'm living
this kind of adventure

there is a kind
also of addiction.

People, they may not
really understand but

it's just something you know

that you are
planning in your mind.

You are not sure whether
at the end of the day,

you will still be alive or not.

This is the way I enjoy living.

My life is always about
my next challenge.

So you know one is done,
it's done, it's wrapped up

and then there will
be always another one

until my last breath.

(ambient sounds)

I am Alain Robert, but most of
the people they are knowing me

more as a French Spider-Man.

The guy who can climb anything,
especially climbing buildings.

Just using my bare hands.

(tense music)

I have climbed 160 buildings,

it took nearly 25 years,

70 different countries.

Discovering people,
discovering cultures.

Climbing a building
is the absolute vertical

from bottom to top.
It can be really tiring.

Sometimes I've been
trying only a few meters

and I wasn't even sure
I was going to make it...

and fighting hard to stay alive.

And when you are reaching
the top, you just feel like...

wow, I won my fucking
life. I am having an extra life.

I'm reborn. And that's
just an amazing feeling.

When I was like 8, I saw
a movie inspired by a novel

written by Henri Troyat:
The Grieving Snow.

It's a story of a plane
that crashed near

the top of Mont Blanc
and two brothers guide,

they decide to climb the
mountain and to seek survivors.

And I have been
really fascinated by that,

I have been intrigued
and at that time

even though I was still
very young I just thought,

when I would be older,
I just want to become a climber.

My parents, you know, they
didn't really understand me,

because they are
from a generation

which you're successful
if you are a doctor,

if you are a teacher,
if you are engineer,

but a climber? Come on man.

I felt insecure, I thought that
maybe my face is not good,

you know,
that kind of a complex.

It brings a lot of
negativities around your life.

And I was having to
find something you know

to stand out, to find my way,
and I found it.

First time was a bit by
accident, I was at school,

one teacher was missing,

so I was having to go home
2 hours before my parents,

when I arrived in
front of my apartment,

I realised that I
didn't take the keys.

For some reason even
though I was not really thinking

about climbing
the 7 story building,

I was looking at it
and I was studying,

and sometimes you
know a bit like a dreamer,

like you are watching something,
although you know most likely

you never gonna do it, but...

and on that day

for some reason I decided
that I was having enough,

I was having to be
brave and courageous.

This is how I started to
climb a seven-story building.

I have suddenly opened a gate.

Most of the people they
are dreaming their life

and suddenly I was
on the other side.

I was living my dream.

You know, as a little
boy afraid of everything,

lacking of self-confidence,
that was kind of a giant step.

It seems that nowadays a lot
of people are not even aware

that I used to be a
famous rock climber.

(exciting music)

I was having more than a solid
background on rock climbing

and especially free soloing.

I'm talking about things
that I did 25, 27 years ago,

pushing the difficulties
of free soloing

at the highest, highest
level ever in the whole world.

Verdon,
that famous route Pol Pot

that was so hard, that was so…

so unsafe and you are
just climbing... you are

300 metres above the ground and
just using some small pockets,

some friction for your feet
and it's kind of scary stuff.

My margin in between
making it or falling and dying

was really really slim.

Nowadays people they
have kind of forgotten

because that was
before internet.

I'm trying also to tell
people that I'm just

not only a guy who
is climbing buildings.

Very famous rock climbers like
Alex Honnold they are knowing,

they are perfectly aware.

Alex did something
amazing two years back.

He climbed El Capitan.

He was the first person
climbing free solo.

It's a 900m route but the
hardest pitch, it's 5.13a.

And what I did for example
25 years ago was up to 5.13d.

[Alex Honnold] One of the
things that I really respect

about Alain is just the vision
that he had over the years,

his willingness to do things
that other people wouldn't do.

I think that Alain Robert
was one of the first people to

really free solo
very difficult routes.

I mean in fact he's free soloed
harder grades than I ever have.

Similar things that
he climbed on rock

are really more impressive than
what he's done on buildings,

but it's just been
30 years or so

so nobody really
remembers them now.

(ambient music)

For me, climbing was not
about racing or competing,

it was about freedom
and self-expression.

It sounds idealistic, perhaps...

but I guess I'm just from
another generation of climbers.

How is everything?

It's good bro.

Is it good?

It looks like a really
nice place for climbing.

Yeah, it's great.

As climbing became more popular,

they added more
rules and regulation

and it became more like a sport.

It was no longer
about adventure.

I did not want to
compete against others

but again the cliff,
against myself.

Alone and with
my life in my hands.

The new generation, they
are really pushing very hard.

Climbing sometimes what
just to put a long distance

in between peg.

If you are falling
you were dead.

Mental game. It's
something very mental game.

Climbing was totally different.

(newsreaders speaking
in foreign languages)

So what's there to do on
a summer day in Chicago?

Go to the beach,
play volleyball, or…

climb a mountain in Chicago?

Well, one visitor decided
to do the next best thing.

He is like Spider-Man
or so it would seem,

and his web; some
of the tiny rungs

for window washers along
this mountain of a building.

(exciting music)

The aesthetic of the
building is very important,

it's like a woman...

You are picking usually
the one that is gorgeous.

(laughter)

(intense music)

The Petronas Twin Towers,
in Kuala Lumpur.

You know, when I did it, I was
really having to pinch myself.

I was standing at the top 452
meters above the ground and...

that was after 12 years,
two failed attempts,

and I knew I was risking
maybe up to five years in jail.

(helicopter blades)

At the end there is a pinnacle,
it's about 80 meters,

and you are really standing
at the top of the world.

That was really
an amazing feeling

and I was just telling
myself; am I dreaming?

(exciting music, applause)

It feels a bit unreal,

everybody is laughing, everybody
wants to take pictures about you

or want an autograph,
a kiss or whatever.

I'm not gonna tell
you that I don't like it.

When suddenly there are
thousands and thousands

of people and they
are chasing you,

as a matter of fact,
it is pleasant.

(seabirds, waves crashing)

In Bali actually I am not
really doing anything special.

My career is more
backwards than forwards, so...

I am climbing less,

I am just enjoying
my life a bit differently,

you know, more relaxed.

I am staying here on retired
visa, then I'm not working,

I don't like
working so it's fine,

and I am like resting,
watching TV,

swimming... enjoying my wife.

Having a good champagne,
or 2 or 3 sometimes.

(overlapping conversation)

You know deep down,
if you have understood, I'm just

following my dreams.

And I am having the
willpower for the next maybe,

15 or 20 years for
climbing again, free soloing

because this is the way I
am really expressing myself.

As long as I'm
having a bit of margin,

I am considering
that this is safe.

(helicopter blades)

(radio chatter)

(overlapping voices)

I love kicking the
ass of the society.

I am a kind of
rebellious person.

The New South Wales
police look very dimly on this,

we've had to use a number of
different resources here today

and its obviously been a

tremendous impact on
the people of Sydney.

We've had to close streets etc.

So we'll be prosecuting him
to the full extent of the law.

I also enjoy very
much climbing illegally

because it's more fun,

it makes the story bigger.

I have been also
jailed many times.

Not long ago I
climbed in the UK.

That was really,
really on the edge.

I was already having
two previous injunctions,

But you know, I'm 56.

I'm not gonna go to jail
for 5 years or 10 years,

so I just prefer to
abandon climbing in the UK.

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Sometimes people,
they are asking me

what scares me the most,

and I'm just telling
them, having a boring life.

I find it for me more scary
than climbing and falling.

I am training hard, I am
trying to be in a good shape,

though I'm not as
young as before.

I just feel like for a guy
who is now close to 60

I'm not that bad.

At least I am the lucky one

because I can climb
until maybe I'll be 70.

When I grabbed the pocket
then I just, I got a "stake".

So if you can... yeah just one.

Oh, I broke so many, my skull,

I broke my nose quite badly,
and I fell in a coma also.

The worst thing is my wrist.

Because I fell from
nearly 20 metres.

I am having, you know,
some strong features,

I'm not like them all,
like Enrique Iglesias,

or that kind of
shitty Tom Cruise.

I am more like
somebody who stand out.

From the beginning
when I know about his job

I really want him to stop,
and I wish

that he can stop and
to find another job,

but it looks like
already inside his blood.

If I'm asking him
to stop climbing

it's like I'm asking him to die.

I don't know actually
if I already told you

but I am planning to
go to the Philippines.

And I wish to climb
one of the buildings.

(tense ambient noise)

You like it, you don't like it,
you hate me, you love me?

(overlapping
chatter and laughter)

You know what it feels
like last time UK, it's uh...

The UK was a
very particular case,

because there I had
already been arrested

6 times so they just
got tired about me

and they wanted... to
make me feel like shit.

But Philippines, for me,
I am completely virgin,

it's a new background,

it's a new field, so I don't
think it shouldn't be bad,

it can't be bad, very sure.

I always thought
that I wanted one day

to climb something in
Philippines, so here we are.

And usually I am
a kind of person,

if I am having an
idea in my mind,

I'm not going to give up.

Sometimes also it's something

that makes me
a little bit afraid,

I am also a bit
afraid of myself.

It's like... I'm stuck.

On the other side I
know what he's doing,

but I'm already falling in love.

It's like, what should
I do? It's difficult,

so we are nearly never
talking about climbing,

about job, which building.

No Ira, you know,
she never tried

to convince me not to climb.

She knows and she
heard it so many times

that for me climbing
is as important as

eating, breathing or sleeping.

So she has kind
of set up her mind

that for me climbing
is as important

as being in love for her
and her being in love for me.

I just want a real life,
normal life,

without questioning my husband

will he come back
again or not after this job,

on the other side,
this is his hobby, his passion,

so I cannot stop it.

Of course people
who are loving me,

they obviously they are afraid

because they know that
what I am doing is dangerous.

I don't really need to
explain that it is a deadly game

because it's just so obvious.

Then... no need to
add. It's just understood...

that I may or may not
come back one day.

(tense music)

The pollution looks very bad.

It's kind of strange
being back to Manila

because now there
is a lot of buildings,

you know I was in
Philippines 20 years back,

and there was nearly nothing.

I think it is the one. No,
it's not.

I also could do this one.

Not really tall,
but not really bad.

Yeah, I think I can see the tip,
it's the one there.

Actually I know it quite well
because I already got videos

from a guy I am in touch
with who lives in Manila

and I also check plenty
of pictures on Google,

it's kind of already
like an old friend.

Just quickly, if you can
ask the guy to park the car

as soon as possible, like
this. I can have a proper look.

You know, I really,
I really need to touch it

if you can drop
me now like this,

and then you are coming back,
I will be here, okay?

I prefer here because there,
there may be the security.

You know, this is
security of the building.

They are not supposed to
have that kind of weapons.

It looks like more guys engaged
in the war on terrorism in

Afghanistan or Iraq
than just security people.

To be honest with
you it's a bit scary.

You don't know what's happening
in the mind of the people.

If they just think that what
is happening is not normal

and if they are allowed
to shoot you or not.

That's kind of an issue.

Well having a lawyer,
and to be honest,

let me go alone
checking the building,

because if everyone
is following me

with the camera
there is no story.

(traffic sounds)

(tense music)

This is good, this is the
only good news actually.

In principle that
should be okay.

It is really climbable.

There is some horizontal ledges,
the first maybe 10 meters.

They are quite close, and
after, the gap is much bigger

in between two
ledges so obviously

it will be more difficult.

For what I checked this morning,

it looks like there
is some beams,

I think they are a little bit
lousy, meaning not very solid,

but underneath the
structure is solid, so...

I am planning to
climb the corner

so I would be, let's say I
would be starting here...

all the way to the top,
not exactly to the top

because unfortunately everything

is ending here or maybe there.

There is a little
bit that is missing

and I don't know if
I can cross this part.

Looks like it's impossible.

Of course, I do love you.

And oh love... about the rifle,
one of the good news,

it seems that this
is not real bullets,

and the security people
they are not using it.

It's more something intimidating

and that's it. It's
not for real use.

I don't want him
to climb. It's scary,

it's like... scary and it's
not really a nice feeling.

He is not at home and I'm
waiting, what's gonna happen

and what kind
news I'm gonna get.

No my love don't
worry... that's no big deal.

I will do it if I
know it is safe.

(voice on end of phone)

OK, OK. And don't drink
my champagne, please.

(laughter)

Well I manage Alain's
day to day business.

And when he climbs I
coordinate all of the media,

which often can
be at short notice.

The president's administration
is very harsh on law breakers.

And we just don't know how
they'll take this climb.

They may view it as trivial or
they may view it as serious,

so it's worrying.

Alain will definitely
get arrested,

so we have to have a lawyer
on site to represent him.

If we don't get a lawyer though,

I don't think he can risk
climbing here in Manila,

because he might get shot.

He spoke to some
lawyers already?

So he won't help me.

Why doesn't he want to help me?

Well you know people
they are a bit coward,

they are a bit chicken also
and sometimes it sucks.

They have no guts.

They like watching
Bruce Willis on TV

and... or Jason Statham,

but when you are
asking them to do a little...

you know,
what's the fucking deal?

Climbing a building,
it's nothing.

From the beginning you told me:

if you feel like
climbing you climb,

if you don't want
to climb it's fine.

No because I've decided
that I will be climbing.

Whether you're coming or not,
I still want to climb.

I am also doing it for myself.

I'm not doing it because
there is something involved.

I am just doing it
because as a matter of fact

I love climbing and

I have been climbing
my whole life long.

I just wish to climb tomorrow
and I'm climbing tomorrow.

(ambient sound)

For me, you know
climbing is as important

as eating,
breathing and sleeping.

We need those three things.

On the top of it, there is a
fourth one, I need to climb.

I am like any other human being,

I am afraid, before an ascent.

I feel a kind of a calm
down towards my own death.

I am having responsibilities
and everything,

so you know,
I'm sizing everything.

(quiet background chatter)

I mean I can stop there, cause
if we stop over there, I mean...

(tense music)

(whistle)

It's quite close,

I can't really afford... to
put my center of gravity

too far away from
the... from the glasses.

(creaking)

(clanging)

You need to touch it, because
it looks like it's so flimsy.

Of course, if one of
this shit is going down,

I am going down as well.

(siren)

(announcer speaking
foreign language)

(announcer speaking foreign
language, sirens, traffic)

A spider! Hey little spider.

(quiet, ambient music)

It's finished soon.

Woo!

(cheering, applause)

This is the best I could
do. It's not bad actually.

I better climb down... easily.

(exclamation in French)

It's okay, it's okay!

No worries man!

I am a kind of showman. I
love playing to the people.

It's a bit like theater...

people they are watching
something happening,

…and I just felt like I need
to give them a bit more.

(cheering)

(screaming)

I am kind of a playful person.
In our society nowadays

there isn't much people
that are that daring.

My whole life is
based on having fun.

(horn beeping)

(overlapping chatter,
crowd commotion)

(speaking in foreign language)

(tense music,
overlapping voices)

For me,
going to jail I kind of like it.

I like pushing,
I like exploring boundaries.

And I like kicking
ass of the society.

Actually, yeah, what I'm
delivering to the whole world

is a broad message
about being courageous,

but also being confident.

There is the good craziness
and there is the bad one.

You know what people are
saying about me: badass.

(intense music)

Actually, yeah, the message
is not about fucking climbing.

Who cares about climbing.

It is being a bit more daring...

realizing your dreams.

(ambient music)