Spider Dan convicted

A US man has been convicted for climbing a 60-storey building.

Daniel Goodwin - known as 'Spider Dan' - was found guilty of public nuisance and obstructing arrest after he spent four hours climbing the Millennium Tower in San Francisco on September 6 last year.

The 55 year old scaled the residential high-rise aided by suction cups. He said he wanted to draw attention to a national lack of preparedness in case of skyscraper fires.

He will be sentenced on February 1 and faces a year in jail plus fines.

The judge dismissed an additional charge of trespassing.