From the Niagara Falls Review: What do you do after successfully crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope with the whole world watching? “I slept all night for the first time in three months,” said Nik Wallenda, addressing media at Edgewaters Restaurant one day after cementing himself in the record books as the first person to…
From the Toronto Sun: Now that Nik Wallenda’s walk across Niagara Falls has come and gone, the city is beginning to digest just how big of an event it was. Mayor Jim Diodati said ever since he heard of Wallenda’s proposal he knew the number of eyes on Niagara Falls would be astronomical. “We were…
From a letter to the editor of the Buffalo News: Being born and raised in Niagara Falls, it meant real excitement for me to watch Nik Wallenda pull this off. Tether or not, it was a pleasure to see another American visit my old hometown and display his talent and courage over one of the…
From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo (includes video): According to a survey commissioned by the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corporation, the economic impact of Nik Wallenda’s walk across Niagara Falls was immense. Niagara University’s Hospitality Training and Research Center interviewed close to 600 people throughout Prospect Park and Old Falls Street. In the nine hours…
From IBTraveler: Officials banned stuntmen and daredevils from turning Niagara Falls into a circus over a century ago, but on Friday night, tightrope walker Nik Wallenda became the first of his generation to tackle the world’s most famous falls — and he did so on prime time TV with official support. The daredevil remained unnaturally…
From the Buffalo News: Nik Wallenda wire-walked into history at Niagara Falls on Friday, but the effects quickly rippled around the world. “As far as feats of derring-do go, they don’t get much more primal or more terrifying,” wrote the Guardian of England. Wallenda hovered over the gorge like a “latter-day Moses,” said the New…
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,…