The man didn't use safety harnesses to keep himself from falling, relied on chalk and sticky tape to keep going

Apr 14, 2015 13:52 GMT  ·  By

Over the weekend, 52-year-old Frenchman Alain Robert, an urban climber better known simply as Spiderman, scaled a mammoth spiraling tower in Dubai. 

The structure, dubbed Cayan Tower, measures an impressive 1,007 feet (306 meters) in height. Still, it took Alain Robert just 70 minutes to make it all the way to the top.

The climber's achievement was caught on film, and the footage it now making the rounds. You can find it embedded below, should you be in the mood to have a look at it yourselves.

The man didn't use any safety harnesses

52-year-old climbed Dubai's Cayan Tower this past Sunday. To make things more exciting, he scaled the structure not in broad daylight, but during nighttime.

As mentioned, it took him a little over an hour to pass by each and every of the building's 75 stories and make it to the top. All the while, people watched him from the ground.

Despite the fact that the Cayan Tower has a twisted shape, making it more difficult to climb and, therefore, more dangerous, Alair Robert didn't use any safety harnesses or anything of the sorts.

He relied on nothing but chalk and sticky tape to make sure that he wouldn't lose his hold on the structure and fall. Apparently, the climber has made it a habit of not using harnesses when pulling such stunts.

This climb wasn't even his most impressive

Scaling Dubai's Cayan Tower might sound pretty impressive, but the fact of the matter is that Alain Robert has until now climbed plenty of other famous buildings.

Thus, he's scaled the Sydney Opera House in Australia, the Eiffel Tower in France, the Sears Tower in the US, the Jin Mao Tower in China, and many other landmarks.

The urban climber pulled his most astounding stunt yet a few years back, in 2011, when he ascended Dubai's Burj Khalifa, which measures a whopping 2,717 feet (828 meters) in height.

When scaling Burj Khalifa, the man agreed to let his team put a rope around him. As he never even flinched during the climb, the rope proved obsolete.