Alain Robert keynote speaker

French Spiderman Alain Robert climbs cliffs, mountains, gorges and skyscrapers… most often ‘without safety’. To date he has climbed more than 200 skyscrapers, including twice climbing the world’s tallest skyscraper, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, at almost 3000ft.

His climbs invariably attract colossal global publicity and he is the only celebrity who is famous in literally every country on earth (195).

If Alain climbs anywhere in the world… say Moscow, Sydney, Jakarta, or even Reykjavik or Timbuktu, etc... It doesn’t matter where; the ascent will invariably be reported in ’all countries of the world’.

If one Google.com searches Alain Robert, the search returns over HALF A ‘BILLION’ results. For comparison, the same Google search of Hollywood Superstar George Clooney returns only 37 million results (One-fifteenth of the results for Alain Robert).

Alain is also officially world ranked in the ‘Top 100 Greatest Athletes of All Time’, alongside legends: Pele, Maradona, Muhammad Ali, Jack Nicklaus, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey and Jessie Owens, etc.

The Chinese have erected a bronze statue to French Spiderman Alain Robert. It is situated at the foot of Mount Tianmen, Hunan Province, China.

A number of Alain’s climbs have attracted live audiences of 100,000 or more.

His Sapphire Mall climb in Istanbul attracted a press and media turnout of more than 400 international journalists and the climb was also shown live on 4 TV stations in that region of the world.

Alain is a living legend; the greatest and most exciting climber who ever lived. He is easy to work with… a charismatic ‘rock n roll’ star, who always gives 100%.

With about 180 arrests to date, he is probably the world’s most arrested man. Alain’s amazing life moves between 10 Star Accommodation… as the special guest of Kings and Sheikhs; to spending time in the world’s most appalling ‘hell-hole’ prisons.

Passionate about Climate Change, he has raised huge amounts of money for the good causes that he believes in.

In December 2023, the United Nations engaged Alain to climb the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa, Dubai, in ‘Climb to Change’, to officially open the COP28 global climate conference.

Also in December 2023, Alain was honoured, when he picked up his second Brand Laureate Award. A world-famous ceremony, held in Kuala Lumpur (His first was in 2010).

Alain is an extraordinary raconteur with a thousand real ‘life and near death’ stories.

At aged 19 Alain was a brilliant up and coming French climber, frequently featuring in climbing magazines. Then one day, while helping some inexperienced climbers, Alain fell. He received massive injuries and was in a coma for 5 days. His hands were shattered… and he underwent several surgeries, while in hospital for 3 months. At one point the surgeon Dr Hoele even considered amputating his hands.

Dr Hoele told him he would never climb again. When Alain eventually returned home, he was so weak that he could not even lift a coffee cup. Also, he was now officially 66% disabled and suffered from vertigo and epilepsy, as a result of a fractured skull.

After 2 weeks sitting at home and becoming extremely bored, Alain found a wall near his house. The wall was 200 metres long and 3 metres high. He began visiting the wall 3 or 4 times every day. At first he could only lean against it, but after a few weeks he was able to step up onto the wall. His plan was not to climb up, but to climb across it.

Each time he returned to the wall he tried to push on further and further; using chalk to mark where he had reached. Despite his countless visits, it nevertheless took him 2 years to cross the entire wall. In fact, in spite of his injuries, he had now made himself a better climber than he would have ever been had he not had the accident.

• In a world where no climbers become global household names, Alain became famous in every country.
• In a world where no climbers make any real money, Alain has made a fortune.

Over the years, Alain has been sponsored by many famous multi-national brands, including Zenith Watches (Switzerland), LVMH Group ‘Moët Hennesy Louis Vuitton’, Challeng’Hair, Halewood International (Dead Man’s Fingers and Lamb & Watt), Zeppelin Watches, Sheikh Khalifa, Continental Tires, Sheikh Nayhan, Sheikh Maktoum, Sheikh Al-Thani, Point-Tec and many, many others.

Alain has starred in many TV documentaries worldwide. Also, he was the star (subject) of an episode of CNN’s ‘REVEALED SHOW’. It went to a world audience of 700 million people. The show features global icons. Previous subjects have included: Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Francis Ford Coppola, Silvio Berlusconi, Dolce and Gabbana.

Alain has climbed several times for Columbia Pictures, dressed as Spiderman, to promote the then latest Spiderman movie release in various parts of the world.

He starred in the Continental Tires 2019 worldwide advertising campaign.

His hit Netflix documentary ‘My Next Challenge’ won many international awards (Winner: Reale Film Festival, Tokyo Film Festival, New York Cinema Awards, etc.).

Alain is a very experienced motivational, keynote, after-dinner and Zoom speaker. He has spoken at conventions for dozens of global companies including – Bristol Myers Squibb, L’Oreal, Goodyear Tyres, HSBC, MIPMI (Cannes), Continental Tires, QI Group, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Mashreq Bank (Dubai), MLM (Kuala Lumpur), Abu Dhabi Men’s College and Women’s College, Biarritz (France), DHL, UBS (New York), UBS (Hong Kong), MidWest Airlines, UBS (Singapore), CTBUH (Mumbai), Singapore, Kievstar (Ukraine) Bratislava Festival, JUUL (With Arnold Schwarzenegger), MEFMA Conference (With Donald Trump), Banff (Scotland), Occitane (France), Challeng’Hair (Paris), Unilever, Russell Investments (Edinburgh and Seattle), GP Bullhound, Feedzai SA, Moet, Hennessy, Luis Vuitton, Citywire, Pepsi, Bayer, Volkwagen, Zenith of Switzerland, Wella, Dead Man’s Fingers etc. Education without Borders (Dubai) 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 (With Tony Blair), 2013 etc…

2020 Oscar winning free-solo climber Alex Honnold rates Alain as the greatest climber who ever lived.

Alex says, “Alain’s free-soloing ‘without a rope’ of grade 5.13.D, is only a fraction off, what a handful of climbers in the world can do ‘with a rope’.”

Social Media 2024 Alain’s climbing videos get around 100 million views every 28 days on social media.

French Spiderman Alain Robert is a cool guy… and he is very easy to work with.

He is fluent in French and English.