Firecracker Films

Daredevils: The Human Spider Returns

Channel 4
1 x 60mins
TX: 12/10/2009

Preferring glass and steel to rock and stone, and without ropes or safety equipment one man has taken the art of climbing to dangerous new heights… Having already conquered 80 of highest building’s on earth, Alain Robert now has his sights on the only one to have eluded him: Malaysia’s Petronas Towers.

Driven by his failure to reach the summit on two previous occasions, he is planning one last attempt on the building that has become his nemesis.

Shot over two years, this film follows the world’s most daring free solo climber, across the globe, in the run up to his bid to scale the towers in September 2009.

Can the man dubbed the Human Spider finally reach the top of the world’s tallest twin towers?

TX: 14/09/09 – The Human Bird
TX: 21/09/09 – The Ice Man
TX: 05/10/09 – The Sky Walker
TX: 12/10/09 – The Human Spider Returns

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