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China Lifts Ban on French Spidey

Daredevil returns, only months after being banned from the country

By Sam Gale Rosen,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 13, 2007 7:22 PM CST

(Newser) – Only a few months after China booted out French daredevil Alain Robert for illegally climbing Shangai's tallest building, the communist superpower has invited him back. Robert, known as the French Spider-Man for scaling tall structures without safety gear, was expelled for five years and spent...   Read full story »

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