CRACKPOT high-wire artist Nik Wallenda completed yesterday a - TopicsExpress



          

CRACKPOT high-wire artist Nik Wallenda completed yesterday a quarter-mile tightrope walk near the Grand Canyon 1,500 feet up WITHOUT A HARNESS on a two-inch-thick steel cable strung above Little Colorado River Gorge on the Navajo Nation. But did you know that in 1978, his grandfather at age 73, Karl Wallenda attempted a walk between the two towers of the ten-story Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on a wire stretched 121 ft (37 metres) above the pavement, but fell to his death when winds exceeded 30 mph (48 kilometres per hour). The Wallenda family attributed the tragedy to misconnected guide ropes and not the windy conditions. A film crew from WAPA-TV in San Juan taped the fall https://youtube/watch?v=ZG_a2LxIKIw
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:36:53 +0000

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