It’s a sad day when a superhero can’t even | |
scale a skyscraper when he wants to. Last |
week, the owner and developer of the Shard |
of London Bridge Quarter (LBQ) in London |
took out an injunction against French climber |
Alain Robert to prevent him ‘entering the |
Shard site or attempting to climb the |
building’. |
Robert, otherwise known as the ‘French |
Spider-Man’ due to his penchant for climbing |
some of the world’s tallest buildings without a |
rope or harness, has previously scaled the |
Sydney Opera House, the Empire State |
Building and the 2,717-ft Buj Khalifa in Dubai |
-the world’s tallest manmade structure. |
According to Robert, he was apparently |
spotted by security staff as he was checking |
out the 1,016-ft building. A spokesperson for LBQ gave us the following |
statement: ‘As LBQ takes its responsibility to health and safety extremely |
seriously we have sought to prevent Mr Robert from attempting to climb the |
Shard.’ |
But will an injunction stop him? Given that most of his previous climbs haven’t |
been given the legal go-ahead, we doubt it. |
Time Out, 2012 |