Nik Wallenda

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Nik Wallenda

Nikolas Wallenda (born January 24, 1979 in Sarasota , Florida ) is an American tightrope artist, stunt performer and extreme athlete. He is a member of the Flying Wallendas family of artists, which goes back to the Magdeburg circus acrobat Karl Wallenda , his great-grandfather.

Career

Nik Wallenda is the son of Terry Troffer and Delilah Wallenda and was born into a family of artists. He was already balancing on the rope at the age of two, but was only allowed to participate in professional performances by his family when he was 13. It was not until 1998 that Wallenda decided to pursue a career as a high wire artist when part of his family performed the 7-person pyramid on the rope. In 2001, Nik Wallenda was part of the world's first 8-person pyramid . In 2009 he set various world records, which earned him an entry in the Guinness Book of Records .

His run over the Niagara Falls on June 15, 2012 attracted a lot of attention. Wallenda also received great media attention on June 24, 2013 when he climbed the 457 m deep gorge of the Little Colorado River on Native Indian on a 425 m long, 5 cm thick high rope Crossed land near Grand Canyon National Park .

On November 2, 2014, Wallenda performed a double tightrope act in Chicago . In the first action, he covered a distance of 138 meters at a height of 200 meters and had to cope with an incline of 25 meters. The wire was attached between two skyscrapers in Marina City . The route led from Marina Tower West over the Chicago River to the roof of the Leo Burnett Building. A few minutes later he carried out the second stage. He covered the nearly 30 meters to the top of the Marina Tower East on the tightrope blindfolded. Wallenda had dedicated the campaign to his great-grandfather Karl, who fell to his death in 1978 in Puerto Rico in a tightrope act between two high-rise buildings. The station Skyscraper Live broadcast the spectacle from Chicago live to 220 countries around the world from 7.30 p.m. (local time).

On June 23, 2019, Nik Wallenda and Lijana Wallenda crossed New York's Times Square on a 400 meter long rope stretched between the skyscrapers One Times Square and Two Times Square at a height of around 80 meters in the opposite direction. When ordered by the authorities, they used a safety rope.

Trivia

  • Nik Wallenda traditionally performs his tricks without a network and without protection.
  • The American broadcaster American Broadcasting Company insisted on the live transmission of the crossing of Niagara Falls on a safety rope. Nik Wallenda said: You ruined my lifelong dream a little.

Web links

Commons : Nik Wallenda  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Wallenda in infoniagara.com
  2. The Flying Wallendas (English). ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wallenda.com
  3. Dmax: Nik Wallenda ( Memento from June 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Insideedition.com
  5. Miamilocal
  6. mirror
  7. ^ Wallenda dances across the abyss of Chicago, Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 3, 2014
  8. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/23/us/flying-wallendas-times-square/index.html
  9. Stuttgarter Zeitung-22 minutes over the abyss