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)…
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…
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…
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…
From Stuff.co.nz: Nik Wallenda can’t visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations. Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging, whitewater maw. Now 33, the seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas, is ready to…
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.
Once again I apologize for dropping off the face of the earth after the Nik Wallenda walk. It’s not that there wasn’t anything to write about. It’s that the Tuesday before the walk we got the keys to our new house, and we’ve been busy for a few weeks and things are finally settling down….