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Stephen Peer (1840-1887) was a tightrope walker who, though he completed the feat successfully many times, fell to his death while walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Biography [ edit ]
Maria Spelterini crossing the Niagara gorge on a tightrope. Maria Spelterini (sometimes spelled Spelterina and occasionally referred to as Marie, July 7, 1853 – October 19, 1912) was an Italian tightrope walker who was the only woman to cross the Niagara gorge on a tightrope, which she did on July 8, 1876, as part of a celebration of the U.S. Centennial.
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 ...
He toured the United States and was known for crossing the 1,100 ft (340 m) Niagara Gorge on a tightrope. During an event in Dublin in 1860, the rope on which he was walking broke and two workers were killed, although Blondin was not injured. He married three times and had eight children. His name became synonymous with tightrope walking.
Karl Wallenda died when he lost his balance and fell to his death while tightrope walking on a wire that was suspended 123 feet (37 m) in the air between two buildings in San Juan, Puerto Rico. [26] Cuban singer Miguelito Valdés (Mr Babalú) suffered a fatal heart attack while singing at Hotel Tequendama, Bogotá, Colombia, 8 November 1978.
As last weekend's tightrope walk shows, the site remains penetrable. Mark Tarczynski, a broker who is with the team trying to sell the property as part of bankruptcy proceedings, said the owners ...
Philippe Petit (French pronunciation: [filip pəti]; born 13 August 1949) is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973, as well as between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in August 1974.