Alain Robert

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

Life has to be dangerous.

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

People need to learn to live with more risk.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.