The Flying Wallendas astonished the world once again, becoming the first to cross New York's Times Square on a tightrope 25 stories above the city streets. It was an incredible comeback for daredevil Nik Wallenda and his sister Lijana after she took a catastrophic fall during a high-wire stunt in 2017 and broke every bone in her face and suffered additional injury to her ribs and foot. Seventh-generation daredevil Nik Wallenda, 40, and his sister Lijana, 42, started at opposite ends of the 1,300-foot wire between 1 and 2 Times Square and crossed in the middle, in a sweat-inducing stunt aired live on ABC.
Chills, thrills and more in Nik Wallenda's death-defying feat
Nik Wallenda, the king of high wire, made history once again by walking across the Grand Canyon on Sunday.
Nick Wallenda, a 33-year-old aerialist, has become the first person to successfully cross over Niagara Falls over a tightrope, in an amazing display of acrobatics. He also became the first person in more than a century to cross over on a high wire.
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