WATCH: 'French Spiderman' scales Hong Kong skyscraper with 'peace banner' amid protests

Daredevil Alain Robert dubbed 'French Spiderman' climbed a Hong Kong skyscraper on Friday and unfurled a "peace banner" even as financial hub continued to be rocked by historic political unrest.

57-year-old venturer, who specialises in unsanctioned ascents of tall buildings, shimmied up 68-storey Cheung Kong Center in Hong Kong's main business district in hot and humid conditions on Friday morning. During climb he attached a banner featuring Hong Kong and Chinese flags, as well as two hands shaking. Prior to ascent, Robert put out a statement saying mess of his climb was to make "an urgent appeal for peace and consultation between Hong Kong people and ir government".

"Perhaps what I do can lower temperature and maybe raise a smile. That's my hope anyway," Robert said in his media statement.

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Hong Kong has been battered by 10 weeks of huge, sometimes violent democracy protests. y were sparked by opposition to a plan to allow extritions to mainland, but have since morphed into a wider call for democratic rights. movement represents greatest challenge to Beijing's authority since city was handed back by British in 1997 under a deal that allowed it to keep freedoms that many Hong Kongers feel are w being eroded.

So far neir Beijing r city's loyalist leers, have me any major concessions to movement. Robert has regularly come to Hong Kong to scale buildings in a city that boasts highest concentration of skyscrapers in world. He has climbed Cheung Kong Center twice before.

Last August he was banned by a Hong Kong court from making any more climbs after he was charged over a 2011 illegal ascent of 27-floor Hang Seng Bank building. At time he vowed to return to Hong Kong as soon as ban expired. In January he was arrested after climbing a 47-storey tower in Manila. 

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