Associated Press
via FoxNews.com
6/23/2013
June 18, 2013: High wire performer Nik Wallenda walks across a wire as he practices in Florida. (AP)
LITTLE COLORADO RIVER GORGE, Ariz. – Florida aerialist Nik Wallenda has completed a tightrope walk that took him a quarter mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona.
Wallenda performed the stunt late Sunday on a 2-inch-thick steel cable, 1,500 feet above the river on the Navajo Nation near the Grand Canyon. He wasn’t wearing a harness.
The event was broadcast live on the Discovery Channel.
The 34-year-old Wallenda is a seventh-generation high-wire artist and is part of the famous “Flying Wallendas” circus family — a clan that is no stranger to death-defying feats.
Wallenda says he has wondered what it would be like to cross an area he considers the Grand Canyon since he was a teenager.
Now he knows.
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— Discovery Channel US (@Discovery) June 23, 2013
.@NikWallenda's official time on the wire: 22 minutes, 54 seconds #Skywire
— Discovery Channel US (@Discovery) June 24, 2013
Congrats to @NikWallenda for making history. Your courage and faith is inspiring. #Skywire
— Joel Osteen (@JoelOsteen) June 24, 2013
