From the Buffalo News: Nik Wallenda got his first taste of the wet and windy conditions he’ll encounter when he walks over the falls, as blowing rain drenched the stuntman Wednesday during his daily training session. The skies opened at 11 a.m., just as Wallenda was walking his practice wire, drenching him and causing onlookers…
So, last week WKBW Channel 7 in Buffalo had an article about how the City of Niagara Falls (New York) was preparing for Nik Wallenda’s walk: People are already lining the streets to see the Great Wallenda practice at the Seneca Niagara Casino for his June 15th trek across the gorge. Mayor Paul Dyster said…
From Bullet News Niagara: Kids have that unique gift for getting right to the heart of the matter. So when daredevil Nik Wallenda stood in front of about 200 students at Notre Dame Elementary School Wednesday afternoon, the famed aerialist faced some of the best questions he’s been asked since he first began to make…
Last week I received the latest email newsletter from Falls Avenue. I think this is the first newsletter I’ve gotten that mentioned Nik Wallenda.
The New York Times has a nice article (including video) of Nik Wallenda practicing: Nik Wallenda climbed up a scaffold, stepped onto the steel cable and slipped the harness of his balancing pole over his head. Then he began to walk — each step a few inches in front of the last, his leather moccasins…
From the Buffalo News: Nik Wallenda doesn’t want to wear a harness when he walks on a wire above Niagara Falls. But his sponsors want to make him. He’d prefer to start the walk in the U.S. and end in Canada, though television officials would have it the other way around. And he wants the…
We knew that ABC was going to broadcast Nik Wallenda’s walk in the US, and now we find out that CTV will be the Canadian broadcaster. From a CNW press release: CTV announced today that it is the exclusive Canadian broadcast partner of daredevil Nik Wallenda’s death-defying tightrope walk, live from Niagara Falls, on Friday,…
From the Hamilton Spectator: As the belly button goes, so goes the rest of the body. That saying never made it into the lexicon of high-wire walkers, but it helps explain how Nik Wallenda will attempt to cross over Niagara Falls on June 15. The daredevil will be 60 metres above the water barreling over…
Nik Wallenda will be practicing for his big walk in an area by the Seneca Niagara Casino. He has already had one session, and many outlets have reported on it: CTV – Tightrope walker begins practicing for Niagara stunt – this is probably the best report. It has a video of a telephone interview that…
The Associated Press had a story that was picked up by many, many outlets about ABC televising Nik Wallenda’s tightrope walk. I saw this particular one on the NY Daily News web site: ABC is turning Nik Wallenda’s attempted tightrope walk over Niagara Falls into a prime-time television event next month. The network said Friday…