Daredevil Walks From Skylon Tower to Hilton Hotel

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…

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Cochrane Launches Skywalk 2012

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…

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Sudbury native to walk between buildings in Niagara Falls daily for 12 weeks

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…

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Wire-walking is back, but this time, it’s daily

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)…

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