Human spider adds another skyscraper to his total

A climber scaled a 73-storey Hong Kong skyscraper barehanded today in his latest attempt to draw attention to global warming by conquering the world’s tallest buildings.

Alain Robert, dubbed the French spider-man, has scaled dozens of tall structures without ropes or harnesses, including the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and Malaysia’s Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.