Nik Wallenda
Nik Wallenda
Nikolas "Nik" Wallendais an American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist, and author. He is known for his high-wire performances without a safety net. He holds nine Guinness World Records for various acrobatic feats, but is best known as the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionOther
Date of Birth24 January 1979
CitySarasota, FL
CountryUnited States of America
If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.
A lot of praying helped me a lot.
I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.
I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.
I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire.
I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.
I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.
One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.
There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.