DOHA: Alain Robert, “French Spiderman”, will be scaling the La Cigale Hotel building in Doha on December 6 and 7.
Famous for scaling skyscrapers, Robert has climbed 85 giant structures around the globe, most of which he has scaled using only his bare hands and climbing shoes.
His second time in Doha, Robert will be climbing the building sans safety net.
“The management invited Robert to climb the building on December 6 because maybe, it’s not finalised yet, but maybe, we’re going to formally open our hotel by then and his presence would be interesting to the guests as well as the people in Doha,” a hotel employee said.
Yet from the NYT we read
December 2, 2008
NEW YORK REGION
Times Building Climber Is Sentenced to Three Days of Community Service
By JOHN ELIGON (NYT)
The first man to climb the facade of The New York Times Building last summer pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and will pay also pay a $250 fine.
Invitation v jail ? such is the difference.
Also from today's Doha paper we read
DOHA: Qatar received scattered rainfall across the country yesterday, and the weatherman has forecast chances of more showers today.
The Met department officials termed yesterday’s rains as “scattered but almost all across the country”.
The daily weather chart forecast “partly cloudy to cloudy weather with a chance of scattered rain today.” The weather report also forecast relatively cold weather.
Early yesterday morning, Doha received light scattered rain. Ruwais, Dukhan, Al Khor, Abu Samra and Mesaieed also witnessed light drizzles. Doha witnessed very light rain in the noon that lasted just a few minutes.
The weatherman forecast a maximum temperature of 27 degrees Celsius and minimum of 19 degrees today. The easterly to southeasterly wind is expected to blow at a speed of six to 14 knots inshore and eight to 17 knots offshore. Winds are expected to whip up waves.
This translates to temperatures of 66 - 81 degrees farenheit. Yesterday as I left to get groceries it started to sprinkle - what seemed to come down was muddy wet - and my car was streaked with mud spots. Oddly enough my car spun out on the little wet there was. The image below is of a rare tornado a few weeks ago in the northern area. Weather rarely lingers - in N.E. it is said if you don't like the weather than you should wait a few minutes - even more true here. In the afternoon a friend called to ask what my weather was - she had some rain, I had none.
