France's Alain Robert is going up another one
(NEWSER) - Alain Robert, known as "Spider-man" for his penchant for illegally scaling the world's tallest skyscrapers, is on his way up the world's tallest: Dubai's dizzying half-mile-tall Burj Khalifa. The 48-year-old Frenchman set off just before 6pm local time, and the trip up was expected to take him six or seven hours, notes the AP. Four hours in, he had scaled two-thirds of the 2,717 feet. More»
