French “Spiderman” Alain Robert added another structure to his record of climbing achievements on Saturday, scaling most of a 388-metre (1,280-foot) tower in central China. The climber ascended to an observation platform 268 metres up the Central Plains Fortaleza tower in Henan province’s Zhengzhou city in about two hours, Chinese…
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