From the Niagara Falls Review: Daredevil Alley in Niagara Falls has a prominent new tenant. Jay Cochrane, the legendary wirewalker who made Niagara Falls his second home, has been memorialized with a large display at the Queen Street attraction.
The Niagara Falls Review has a great article about with some great photos of Jay Cochrane and Henry Rechatin, both of whom passed away last year. The world of tightrope walkers lost two of its giants in 2013 – Jay Cochrane and Henry Rechatin. Cochrane, who was born in 1944 and dubbed himself as “The…
From Niagara This Week: Jay Cochrane came before City politicians Tuesday night bearing gifts for the Tender Wishes Foundation, the Boys and Girls Club of Niagara and the City. The 68-year-old funambulist raised more than $10,000 to be split evenly between the two organizations. “He’s really an angel of men,” boys and girls club board…
A couple of weeks ago I received an email newsletter from the Clifton Hill Resort. I haven’t had a chance to see Jay Cochrane walk yet this year, but I’d like to. You can subscribe to the Clifton Hill Resort Update newsletter by visiting the Clifton Hill Newsletter page.
From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo (includes video): Nik Wallenda isn’t the only daredevil wowing crowds with a combination of balance and nerves of steel. Jay Cochrane, 68, held the first of a series of tightrope walks from the Skylon Tower to the Hilton in downtown Niagara Falls, Ontario. Cochrane’s walk started at a height…
From the Daily Mail (it includes some nice pictures): He is called ‘Prince of the Air’ and in the first of a planned 81 death-defying walks he truly lives up to his name. Wirewalker Jay Cochrane ticked the first walk off his long list as he treaded the two inch wire between the Skylon Tower and…
From the Buffalo News: With workman-like precision, Jay Cochrane put one soft-soled shoe four inches in front of the other across 1,300 feet of wire some 581 feet above the ground to walk into the record books Friday. The acclaimed wire-walker made the 31-minute trek from the Skylon Tower to the Hilton Fallsview Hotel’s north…
From WBEN AM: He’s been walking tightropes for 50 years, and Jay Cochrane will be spending his summer walking over a part of Niagara Falls, Ontario. He’ll be walking each night for 12 weeks from Niagara Fallsview Hilton Hotel’s north tower to the top of the Skylon Tower, 600 feet in the air. Cochrane says…
From the Sudbury Star: It’s the summer of skywalks. Hot off the heels of Nik Wallenda’s historic wirewalk across the Horseshoe Falls, Jay Cochrane is getting ready to perform the greatest building-to-building skywalk in North American history – every day for 12 weeks. “It will be a continuation of a blockbuster summer of what this…
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)…