DAREDEVIL climber Alain Robert, known as the “French Spiderman,” has scaled a 68-storey skyscraper in Hong Kong to hoist a flag urging peace and reconciliation between China and the territory, as an anti-government revolt show no signs of waning.
Ten weeks of violent clashes between police and protesters have thrown Hong Kong into its worst crisis in decades, and presented the biggest challenge to Beijing to date. Using his bare hands and without a harness, a 57-year-old shimmied up the Cheung Kong Centre in the city’s main business district and hung a large banner on the building’s exterior. The sign positioned the Chinese flag on the left hand corner and Hong Kong’s flag on the right side.
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