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Wallenda practices walking the wire in Sarasota, Florida on June 14, 2013. Before the walk started, Wallenda and his family prayed with evangelist and family friend Joel Osteen. [21] He was then helicoptered to an island in the middle of the canyon to start his journey. [22] To limit environmental impact, the event was not open to the public. [10]
He made his professional tightrope walking debut at the age of 13, and he chose high-wire walking as his career in 1998 after joining family members in a seven-person pyramid on the wire. In 2001, he was part of the world's first eight-person high-wire pyramid.
This song is a circus metaphor about clinging to life while being on a high wire. In the instrumental section, this song quotes a couple of times, a slow version of the " Entrance of the Gladiators " March, played in a mysterious descending scale, before Russell finishes the last half of the bridge section.
The song, "Man on Wire" by the band 27 is a tribute to Philippe Petit. [23] The song, "Sleepwalking," by Danish composer Ste van Holm is a tribute to Petit's World Trade Center walk. [24] The Low Anthem's song, "Boeing 737", from their 2011 album Smart Flesh, refers to Petit's Twin Towers walk. [25]
Tightrope walking, also called funambulism, is the skill of walking along a thin wire or rope. It has a long tradition in various countries and is commonly associated with the circus . Other skills similar to tightrope walking include slack rope walking and slacklining .
A circus performer has been hospitalized with serious injuries after falling from a tightrope. ... Seacamb said in a statement to PEOPLE that they “were called at 4.45 p.m. on Monday that a ...
Tightrope walking, also called funambulism, is the skill of walking along a thin wire or rope. Its earliest performance has been traced to Ancient Greece. [6] It is commonly associated with the circus. Other skills similar to tightrope walking include slack rope walking and slacklining.
A 28-year-old performance artist who goes by the name Reckless Ben filmed himsel f Sunday teetering along a 1-inch-wide slackline strung between two of the derelict properties’ skyscrapers 40 ...