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 the Leavenworth Times: Niagara Falls is world famous for romantic escapes and dare devil feats. Several people have gone over the falls in barrels surviving “certain death” while a few perished. Nik Wallenda will walk across the falls in June 2012, the first to attempt this feat since “The Great Blondin” 150 years ago….
From the National Post: A) Eleven — 10 men and one woman since 1859. Daredevil Nik Wallenda will become the 11th…
From the Niagara Falls Review: They came as zombies and as superheroes. They came in drag and in batsuits. Mostly, they came in droves to Saturday’s Niagara Falls Comic Con. When it was over, about 5,000 people passed through the pop culture party, making it one of the biggest single-day events at the Scotiabank Convention…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Strapped into articulating yellow chairs and wearing 3D glasses, riders on the new XD Theater ride on Clifton Hill don’t know what they’re in for. But as the lights dim and the massive screen in front of them comes to life, they’re suddenly aboard a futuristic roller coaster hurtling them…
From a CNW Group press release seen on Yahoo! Canada Finance: GO Transit will operate a special event train for passengers to experience a unique tight-rope walk across Niagara Falls. Nik Wallenda will attempt to cross the natural wonder on an 1,800-foot wire on the evening of Friday, June 15. GO will run a train…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Businesses in Niagara Falls are being asked to help foot the bill for Nik Wallenda’s wirewalk. Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati confirmed Friday he has asked the “bigger” business improvement areas in the city to donate money toward Wallenda’s tightrope walk across the Niagara Gorge June 15. Wallenda, who will…
From the Buffalo News: Nik Wallenda has run into some last-minute hang-ups in his attempt to wire-walk across Niagara Falls. But the daredevil and his supporters say the walk will go off without a hitch when the final details are sorted out this week — and they say the event will bring an unexpected benefit…
While in the area to attend his Mom’s graduation, they also went to Niagara Falls (as I tweeted). I must have just missed them, as I was right by the SkyWheel around the time they went on. From E! Online: If you had any doubt that Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes are totally together, then…
From Buffalo Business First: With just 10 days to go before Nik Wallenda makes his binational walk over Niagara Falls, various logistical aspects related to handling the crowd of people expected for the walk have been finalized. The article the goes on to list several things that are being done to prepare.