Climber Scale NY Times Building in Support of Environment

If there's only one thing I can say about New York City, it's that it's rarely ever dull. Yesterday, a French "professional urban climber" named Alain Robert scaled the facade of theNew York Times building, apparently in support of an environmental movement. Robert made the climb wearing a promotional t-shirt advertising the website: thesolutionissimple.org and also dragging a large green banned with the copy "Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week."

According to Robert, the climb was a peaceful demonstration in support of World Environment Day, meant to raise awareness for the need for cleaner energy. A second man, a New Yorker named Renaldo Clarke, also made the climb later that day in support of a different cause. His promotional t-shirt was imprinted with the copy: "Malaria No More. Save the Children." Neither climbers used harnesses or other climbing aids to scale the building. The both submitted peacefully to police officers waiting to arrest them on the roof.

For more coverage of the stunts, check out the NY Times article here.