Post date: Jun 16, 2012 10:57:13 AM
Nik Wallenda walks 1800 feet across the Niagara Falls Gorge on a tight rope. Julie Noce reports.
US/CANADA-TIGHT ROPE WALKER - History was made Friday night when 33 year old Nik Wallenda walked across the Niagra Falls Gorge, on a tight rope.
He started in the US, and walked 1800 feet across to Canada... all while balancing 150 feet in the air on a two inch wire.
Raised in a family of aerialists, the Flying Wallendas have been at it for decades.
But Wallenda said this particular feat was, at times, very challenging.
TIGHT ROPE WALKER NIK WALLENDA SAYING:
" Normally I can focus on that cable underneath me, and as it moves underneath me, I focus on that and my body follows it. Well there's no way to do that because if I looked down at the cable , there was water moving everywhere, and if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face, so it was a very unique, and weird sensation."
What's next for Wallenda? Look out for him somewhere above the Grand Canyon.
Julie Noce, Reuters