Nik Wallenda's Highwire Walk

Wallenda walking the high-wire at King's Island

Nik Wallenda, 7th generation of the "flying wallenda" family, is a first person to walk on a tight rope directly over Niagara falls in 2012.
 Click to watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSBye1LFaug

In 2008, Wallenda set Guinness World Records for longest and highest bicycle ride on a high-wire 250-foot-long (76 m) ride at 135 feet (41 m) above the ground in New Jersey. He nearly doubled the height record in 2010 to 260 feet (79 m). On the same day in 2010, he upped his personal best by tightrope walking over 2,000 feet (610 m) in a single performance.


Wallenda’s two-inch (5 cm) cable spans 1,400 feet (426 m) across the gorge, 1,500 feet (457 m) above ground; that’s higher than the Empire State Building. Also the site is likely to be buffeted with winds up to 30 mph (48 kph). Wallenda says, “I’ve trained for holding on to that cable if there is an emergency”. He performs that with no safety net or harness and inspired many people.

Watch the unimaginable art of brave Wallenda at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIWp_25WOhE