There are so many unknowns that I cannot prepare for. He is a seventh generation member of the famed acrobatic Wallenda family. Nik can trace his lineage back to European circus performers in the s. The fall was aired on live TV.
He learned to walk a tightrope solo by the age of four. His parents, Delilah Wallenda and Terry Troffer , had a circus act and he first tried walking on a tightrope assisted by his mom holding his hand at the age of two.
His father worked on the craft with him and by four he could walk a tightrope unassisted, albeit two feet off the ground for safety purposes. He almost became a doctor. From "Blondin: His Life and Performances. A light rope, not even an inch thick, had been attached to one end of his hempen cable so it could be conveyed across the Niagara River. After tying another rope around his waist, he rappelled feet on the small rope, attached the second rope to the end of the cable, and then blithely climbed back to Canadian ground and secured the cable to a rock.
To prevent swaying, guy ropes ran from the cable at foot intervals to posts on both banks, creating the effect of a massive spider web.
Blondin could do nothing, however, about the inevitable sag in its center, approximately 50 feet of cable to which it was impossible to fasten guy ropes. At that spot, in the middle of his crossing, he would be only feet above the gorge. Blondin to perform the feat, the incapacity of the rope to sustain him, and that he deserved to be dashed to atoms for his desperate fool-hardiness. Shortly before 5 p. The lowering sun made him appear as if clothed in light.
He wore fine leather shoes with soft soles and brandished a balancing pole made of ash, 26 feet long and weighing nearly 50 pounds. Slowly, calmly, he started to walk. Several onlookers fainted.
About a third of the way across, Blondin shocked the crowd by sitting down on his cable and calling for the Maid of the Mist, the famed tourist vessel, to anchor momentarily beneath him. He cast down a line and hauled up a bottle of wine. He drank and started off again, breaking into a run after he passed the sagging center. After 20 minutes of rest Blondin began the journey to the other side, this time with a Daguerreotype camera strapped to his back.
He advanced feet, affixed his balancing pole to the cable, untied his load, adjusted it in front of him and snapped a likeness of the crowd along the American side. Then he hoisted the camera back into place and continued on his way. The entire walk from bank to bank to bank took 23 minutes, and Blondin immediately announced an encore performance to take place on the Fourth of July.
Blondin and his camera, as rendered in "Blondin: His Life and Performances. Halfway across, he lay down on the cable, flipped himself over, and began walking backward. The daredevil stepped off the ledge from the original FireKeepers tower as he began the nearly foot crossing to the new tower. His last live television stunt was in March of when he crossed the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua, marking his longest stunt in terms of time on the wire.
We are faced with this wild pandemic, there are so many unknowns. There are so many people struggling right now, but I encourage you to remain positive. In total, the harness and net free crossing took about 10 minutes. Afterward, the audience was given to take a chance to take a self-tour of the 39, square-foot main floor.
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