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Daniel Goodwin, a 54-year-old Lake Tahoe resident, reached the top of the city's Millennium Tower around 5:30 p.m. Monday and affixed a U.S. flag to the building. His three-hour climb was aired live on many local TV stations.
"I feel what that guy's going through," Chris Brown, who lives on the 42nd floor and shot video of Goodwin as he climbed by, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "He's making the most of his life at this moment."
A spokesman for the San Francisco police department, Albie Esparza, told CNN that officers were waiting for him on the roof. Goodwin was arrested on two misdemeanor counts and then released, Esparza said.
In the 1980s, Goodwin also climbed what was then called Chicago's Sears Tower and the World Trade Center's north tower, among other famous buildings. He has written a book called "Skyscraperman."
On his website, Goodwin writes that he felt personally responsible for deaths at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, because he might have been able to scale the burning towers and save some people before the building collapsed. But Goodwin was suffering from cancer at the time, and was too weak to help.
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Signing his blog statement "SpiderDan," Goodwin wrote that he wanted to climb the Millennium Tower "to call attention to our nation's continued vulnerability to attacks of terrorism upon our skyscrapers." Another reason was to "increase public awareness of cancer," from which he has survived."My hope is, if a survivor of a Stage Four diagnosis can be seen continuing with their life, no matter how bizarre, others will gain inspiration and together we can find a cure for cancer," Goodwin wrote.
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