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French Environmentalists: Alain Robert, Alexandra Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Nicolas Hulot, Jean-Marie Pelt

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Description:Chapters: Alain Robert, Alexandra Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Nicolas Hulot, Jean-Marie Pelt. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alain Robert (born as Robert Alain Philippe on 7 August 1962), is a French rock and urban climber, from Digoin, Sa ne-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. Known as "the French Spider-Man" (after the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man), or "the Human Spider," Robert is famous for scaling skyscrapers. Robert has scaled 85 giant structures around the globe including many of the world's tallest structures, most of which he has scaled using only his bare hands and climbing shoes. Robert began climbing as a young boy, scaling rock cliffs in the area around his home. His buildering career began at the age of 12 when he forgot his keys and was locked out of his parents' eighth-floor apartment. Instead of waiting for them to return home, he simply scaled the exterior wall to his home. In 1982 he suffered two accidents, the first in January at the age of 19 and the second in September at the age of 20. He fell 15 metres (49 ft) on each occasion. He suffered multiple fractures and now suffers from permanent vertigo. The doctors considered him 60 percent handicapped and told him he would not be able to climb again. However, within 6 months he was climbing again. He kept taking on more and more challenging structures and improving his skills. He polished his rock-climbing skills in the French Alps before turning to buildings. Because authorities will not normally give him permission for such dangerous exploits, Robert usually appears, at dawn, on the site of whichever giant skyscraper he has chosen to climb. His exploits attract crowds of onlookers who stop to watch him climb. As a consequence, Alain has been arrested many times, in vari...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=38428We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with French Environmentalists: Alain Robert, Alexandra Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Nicolas Hulot, Jean-Marie Pelt. To get started finding French Environmentalists: Alain Robert, Alexandra Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Nicolas Hulot, Jean-Marie Pelt, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
34
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1156949726

French Environmentalists: Alain Robert, Alexandra Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Nicolas Hulot, Jean-Marie Pelt

Books LLC
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Description: Chapters: Alain Robert, Alexandra Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Nicolas Hulot, Jean-Marie Pelt. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alain Robert (born as Robert Alain Philippe on 7 August 1962), is a French rock and urban climber, from Digoin, Sa ne-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. Known as "the French Spider-Man" (after the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man), or "the Human Spider," Robert is famous for scaling skyscrapers. Robert has scaled 85 giant structures around the globe including many of the world's tallest structures, most of which he has scaled using only his bare hands and climbing shoes. Robert began climbing as a young boy, scaling rock cliffs in the area around his home. His buildering career began at the age of 12 when he forgot his keys and was locked out of his parents' eighth-floor apartment. Instead of waiting for them to return home, he simply scaled the exterior wall to his home. In 1982 he suffered two accidents, the first in January at the age of 19 and the second in September at the age of 20. He fell 15 metres (49 ft) on each occasion. He suffered multiple fractures and now suffers from permanent vertigo. The doctors considered him 60 percent handicapped and told him he would not be able to climb again. However, within 6 months he was climbing again. He kept taking on more and more challenging structures and improving his skills. He polished his rock-climbing skills in the French Alps before turning to buildings. Because authorities will not normally give him permission for such dangerous exploits, Robert usually appears, at dawn, on the site of whichever giant skyscraper he has chosen to climb. His exploits attract crowds of onlookers who stop to watch him climb. As a consequence, Alain has been arrested many times, in vari...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=38428We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with French Environmentalists: Alain Robert, Alexandra Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Nicolas Hulot, Jean-Marie Pelt. To get started finding French Environmentalists: Alain Robert, Alexandra Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Nicolas Hulot, Jean-Marie Pelt, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
34
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1156949726

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