Man watched as he climbed the Salesforce Tower, a 1,070-foot-tall skyscraper in San Francisco, was detained

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) – A free man climbed all the way to the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco on Tuesday morning to the top of the building, where he was met and detained by authorities.

He was reportedly the person who climbed the Salesforce Tower Post on Instagram He is climbing. His name is Maison Des Champs, a rock climber who calls himself Pro-Life Spiderman.

He says on his website that he recently started climbing sky scrapers to end a miscarriage. Posted a video while climbing against an OB/GYN in Washington DC

This ascent was in response to the leaked draft in the Supreme Court abortion case Roe v. Wade.

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Police say that at around 9:21 a.m., officers were informed about the man climbing the building. Officers noticed him on the side of the building from several floors, wearing climbing equipment.

There are closed streets in the vicinity and the authorities are asking people to stay away from the scene.

Officers attempted to contact the climber as he ascended to get him safely out of the building, but instead surrounded him as soon as he reached the summit.

According to Salesforce’s website:

  • The Salesforce Tower is 1,070 feet tall with 61 floors and 1.4 million square feet of office space.
  • It takes 39 seconds for the elevator to travel from street level to the 61st floor.
  • The foundation of the Salesforce Tower is perched in rocky shale, more than 318 feet into the ground.
  • 12,000 tons of steel were used in the construction of the Salesforce Tower.
  • The Salesforce Tower took over 2.5 million man hours to build.
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