There aren't many people out on the various patios today # I love the Spicy Chicken Sandwich! (@ Wendy's) [pic]: http://t.co/iYiMwVhd # Wow it's a hot one today! Find some shade, or better yet, your favourite attraction in Niagara Falls and get out of the heat. # I love the CrunchiCreme ice cream here. It [...]
From the Buffalo News: Wire-walking history is about to be made again at Niagara Falls. Jay Cochrane begins the first of his 80 death-defying walks between two hotel towers this summer at 7 o’clock tonight in Niagara Falls, Ont. When he does, he will also be performing the longest (1,300 feet) and highest (581 feet) [...]
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From Niagara This Week: With apologies to Storage Wars’ resident gambler, Darrell Sheets, in the eyes of Niagara Falls officials, it was the city which laid claim to the “wow factor” last Friday. Make that “Wow-lenda factor.” Even a few days after Nik Wallenda’s historic walk across Niagara Falls on a highwire, Mayor Jim Diodati [...]
From Niagara This Week: Nik Wallenda has done something no one has ever done before: crossed the Horseshoe Falls on a tight rope wire. The seventh generation Flying Wallenda had said crossing the falls had been a childhood dream of his. On Friday night, that dream came true when he completed the stunt across Niagara [...]
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Graham on July 6th, 2012
From the National Post: Emerging out of a cloud of mist, Nik Wallenda ran the last few steps to become the first man in more than a century to cross Niagara Falls on a high wire and singlehandedly bring the Wallenda name back into the public consciousness. Although the walk was mostly free of theatrics, [...]
From the Los Angeles Times: High-wire artist Nik Wallenda fulfilled his dream of walking over Niagara Falls on a wire Friday, defying predictions of naysayers who warned of everything from falcons to fierce winds toppling him as he made his way over the roaring water. As hundreds of thousands of people watched from the Canadian [...]
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Graham on July 6th, 2012
From an Associated Press story seen on Yahoo! News: Walking a high wire over Niagara Falls isn’t only a dicey proposition, it turns out it’s pretty pricey, too. Daredevil Nik Wallenda estimates his history-making, U.S.-to-Canada walk by way of a cable strung over the brink will cost about $1.2 million to $1.3 million. That includes [...]
From WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo: With one day before his high wire walk over the Niagara Falls, Nik Wallenda spent the morning to teach some local school kids how to succeed on the tightrope. Wallenda gave the students a behind-the-scenes look at what his walk on Friday will be like from Terrapin Point. He [...]
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From the New York Times (including some kids’ drawings): The Kids Draw the News assignment to do a drawing about Nik Wallenda’s plan to cross high above Niagara Falls on a tightrope Friday night drew a bunch of lovely submissions. Some of them are in the slide show above.
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