For the last couple of days there has been lots of work going on along the Niagara Parkway down to Table Rock Place. There are a LOT of trucks with a LOT of equipment for the TV production. There are barriers being put in place, security and police officers around, and more. It is kind…
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From UPI: Canadian and American authorities have a backup plan to rescue tightrope walker Nik Wallenda should he be stranded during his walk across Niagara Falls. The plan is a backup to Wallenda’s own rescue plan, which would use a system of pulleys and baskets, The Buffalo (N.Y.) News reported Saturday. “One of the conditions…
From the Toronto Star: Wallenda can’t afford to make a similar stumble this Friday during his highest-profile act yet: walking 550 metres across Niagara Falls, on a wire 60 metres above the gorge. “This is unique because it’s the longest unsupported or unstabilized cable that anyone’s put up in the history of wire-walking,” Wallenda says….
From the National Post: A) Eleven — 10 men and one woman since 1859. Daredevil Nik Wallenda will become the 11th…
From CTV News: Officials have unveiled the safety plan they have prepared for a risky tightrope walk across Niagara Falls next week. The high profile event, scheduled for June 15, will be performed by tightrope walker Nick Wallenda, and is expected to attract unprecedented crowds to the Falls. Niagara Parks Police Chief Douglas Kane said…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Businesses in Niagara Falls are being asked to help foot the bill for Nik Wallenda’s wirewalk. Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati confirmed Friday he has asked the “bigger” business improvement areas in the city to donate money toward Wallenda’s tightrope walk across the Niagara Gorge June 15. Wallenda, who will…
I saw these souvenirs for sale at Canada Trading Company on Clifton Hill. I would assume that most of the stores around have some sort of Nik Wallenda items for sale.
From the Buffalo News: Nik Wallenda has run into some last-minute hang-ups in his attempt to wire-walk across Niagara Falls. But the daredevil and his supporters say the walk will go off without a hitch when the final details are sorted out this week — and they say the event will bring an unexpected benefit…
From the London Free Press: Nik Wallenda is set to walk across the Niagara Gorge on a wire in eight days, but first he has to figure out how he’s going to get the wire from one side of the Niagara River to the other. The logistics of stringing the 550-metre wire from Goat Island…