Monday, 24 June 2013

Daredevil Nik Wallenda completes tightrope walk near Grand Canyon

Aerialist Nik Wallenda on Sunday in northeastern Arizona on the Colorado River in a small valley in a quarter mile to complete.


Wallenda 1,500 feet near the Grand Canyon on the Navajo Nation River on the 2-inch thick steel cable is the trick. No pause lasted only 22 minutes and the double bends wind beaten around and swaying rope.

"Thank you God. Cables thank God that is quiet," he said, walking about 13 minutes.

Wallenda wearing a harness and slow and steady, with Jesus on the road almost constantly muttering not prayers. He ran and jumped the last few steps.

The event was broadcast on the Discovery Channel.
30 mph winds are expected to be around the neck. Wallenda wind sometimes "unexpected" and the dust that had accumulated after the Discovery Walk said. Their contact lenses

"It was more wind, and took every bit of my stay focused all the time," he said.

34-year-old resident, Sarasota, Florida, a string artist is the seventh generation of the famous circus family "Flying Wallendas" are part of - Death Defying delights, no stranger to the clan.

His great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda fell during a demonstration in Puerto Rico, and died at the age of 73. Including an uncle, a cousin and a number of other family members, to walk with the wire stunts away.


Nik Wallenda was playing with his family since he was a teenager and I dream of crossing the Grand Canyon. Guinness World record seventh win on Sunday Trick crossing Niagara Falls is a year later.

Wallenda, a microphone and two cameras, wore on the Colorado River, a dry bed and a front facing. He through his leather shoes with leather soles elk on a steel cable to help keep in check.

He walked up to them on the site on a video screen about 600 spectators encouraged him. A Navajo Nation Ranger, a medical and two members of a film crew and the ground was seen parked at the bottom of the valley.

The Ranger, Elmer Phillips, Wallenda will do on a sidewalk seemed to walk like a normal person. But he stopped Wallenda for the first time when he was a little nervous.

"Apart from that, a very nice performance. I Do not even try something," said Phillips. "Is very good."

Wallenda his next trick in New York City, Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building would have to wait on the tightrope between a rock and then told reporters. But his wife and children as they close completely on a string.


Before the walk, Navajo, Hopi and other Indians, a group protesting the event with signs along the road was near.

In this case, the Grand Canyon, considered sacred by many Native American tribes in the area was described as. Some locals believe Wallenda Five specific U.S. location is not specified, and the Navajo Nation for the benefit of tourism should not be said. Gambling to promote in the life of a human

2 hours Emission Discovery Monument Valley, Four Corners, Canyon de Chelly and Navajo landscape, including Window Rock, the capital of the strain showed.

Natural Resources "When people see, our main business, we want to know the world of Navajo culture, tradition and language is still alive," GERI Hongeva Tribe Department spokesman, said before the walk.
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