Real life Spider-Man scales 24-storey French national library with his bare hands

Like the nimble superhero, he scales skyscrapers with dazzling agility, with just his hands and legs to support him.

And now the man they call Spider-Man has turned his attention to the National Library of France.

Alain Robert, who is French, climbed to the top of the 24-storey building in Paris as police and bystanders gazed up from the ground.