Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.