Niagara Falls Tightrope Walk Approved for This Summer Nik Wallenda, a seventh-generation member of the family of circus performers known as the Flying Wallendas, will attempt a tightrope walk over Niagara Falls this summer. He secured American approval last September and got Canada's approval earlier this week, meaning he is now cleared to move forward with the stunt. To deter copycats, the Niagara Parks Commission also passed a ...
Karl Wallenda (1905) Wallenda was a German-born US circus acrobat and founder and leader of the acrobatic troupe that came to be known as the Flying Wallendas. The group gained notoriety in Europe for its high-wire acts without a safety net before developing its most famous act—the seven-person pyramid, topped by Wallenda's wife, Helen. The troupe traveled with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum ...
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