French climber Alain Robert, also known as “Spiderman” climbed up the highest building in Paris with a Nepalese flag in his pocket as a tribute to more than 3000 victims of the earthquake.

Robert, 53, scaled the 210-metre Tour de Montparnasse without a safety harness in just below an hour.

During the climb he tried to fix the Nepalese flags and prayer flags to the building but they failed to stay attached.

Before setting off he said that his thoughts were with mountaineers stranded at the Everest base camp, where many people died in avalanches set off by the quake.

Robert has climbed more than 130 structures all over the world, never using ropes or safety equipment.