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Summary
Alain Robert, the French "Spider Man," climbs the Cheung Kong Center, the flagship building of Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, in Hong Kong

Robert climbed the 62-story, 928 foot-tall (283-meter) building without safety equipment in approximately 40 minutes. At one point he unfurled a banner for One Hundred Months.org, a website promoting global warming awareness.

AP Photo by Kin Cheung, found at: Der Spiegel, © SPIEGEL ONLINE 2009 All Rights Reserved.