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 WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: The crew that put up Nik Wallenda’s practice cable outside the Seneca Niagara Casino two weeks ago spent most of Wednesday dismantling it. Now that same crew looks forward to rigging a similar cable -twice as long – across the Niagara Gorge a few days before Wallenda’s scheduled crossing…
From the Buffalo News: When Nik Wallenda walks an 1,800-foot cable above Niagara Falls this summer, his biggest challenge won’t be the mist or wind in his face – it’ll be the first step of his historic feat. “The first step’s definitely the hardest one,” Wallenda said Tuesday on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel….