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'French Spiderman' Alain Robert Arrested For Climbing 700ft GT Tower In Philippines. A death-defying daredevil known as the 'French Spiderman' has been arrested after climbing up a 700ft skyscraper without a harness. Office workers were stunned as self-declared "badass" Alain Robert suddenly appeared outside their windows as he scaled the GT International Tower in Makati, Philippines. Extraordinary pictures and video on social media show the 56-year-old stuntman - clad in a dark shirt and yellow trousers with a camera strapped to his head - climbing the 47-storey tower without any safety equipment. The urban climber and Guinness World Record holder later told reporters following his arrest: "There is the good crazy and the bad crazy... but what people are saying about me is I'm a badass." Robert, who suffers from vertigo, risked death has he pulled himself up from one floor to the next, high above a crowd watching from the street below. Makati police said Robert spent about an hour on the side of the tower before descending, and was arrested at about 12pm local time on Tuesday. The force in Metro Manila said he could be charged with trespassing or public disturbance. Robert has become famous for free-solo climbing iconic towers, monuments and cliffs around the world without any safety equipment - and often illegally. In this past, he's scaled Dubai's 2,722ft Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, the 1,063ft Eiffel Tower in Paris, the 1,454ft Empire State Building in New York, the 1,483ft Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the Sydney Opera House. Makati's 720ft GT International Tower is named after George Ty, the skyscraper's owner and chairman of Metrobank. It is the ninth-tallest building in the Philippines. Robert holds three Guinness World Records for climbing iconic structures, despite suffering from vertigo. In 2015, he set a record for the most buildings climbed when he scaled his 121st building - the 1,003ft tall Cayan Tower in Dubai. He holds the record for the fastest time to climb the Burj Khalifa unassisted, a six-hour and 13-minute climb he completed in 2011 with legal permission. A year later, he set a record for the fastest time to climb Qatar's 980ft Torch Doha unassisted (one hour and 33 minutes). Robert grips onto window frames, pipes, cables and gaps between brickwork to climb buildings. Some climbs take hours to complete, although he can usually scale a 1,300ft building in about two hours. Robert climbed his first building when he was aged 11. He was locked out of his family's apartment building in Bourgogne, France, and his parents weren't home, so he decided to scale the seven-storey block using his bare hands. Years later, he was taking on challenging cliffs without safety equipment, and wasn't deterred after suffering a nasty 50ft fall in 1982 that left him in a coma for five days with broken bones. After a two-year recovery period, Robert resumed climbing and became known for scaling skyscrapers, risking death and jail sentences. Previous climbs have landed him behind bars in places such as China, Tokyo and San Francisco.