TAIPEI.- Advertising Frenchman Alain "Spiderman" Robert will climb the world's tallest building. The skyscraper will officially open on December 31. The building management said in a news release: "Alain Robert expressed the wish to climb Taipei 101 a year ago. We recently issued the invitation to him."

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the official international record-keeper of building statistics, announced in October it was the world's tallest in October by , . In addition to being the world's tallest building. Taipei 101 also holds the record for the highest occupied floor (at 438m) and the highest roof (448m) -- taking three of the council's four official height categories.

"This will be another challenge for him after he has climbed the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sears Tower in Chicago, the Opera House in Sydney and Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur," the news release said.