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Daredevil Exhibit - Taking the ... PLUNGE
Daredevil Exhibit - Taking the ... PLUNGE

            

Daredevil Exhibit - Taking the ... PLUNGE
Description: Two Hundred Years of Tales, Triumphs & Thrill-Seekers!
Taking the ... PLUNGE
It's the equivalent of launching yourself off a twenty-storey building and hiiting concrete at about 219 miles/352 kilometers per hour... if you can get beyond the crashing rapids and tornado of a whirlpool upriver. Some have thought that challenging the Rpaids and Whirlpool were enough. But there were those determined to go over the Falls. Fifteen have tried. Ten survived. And then there were the aerialists...
What makes someone challenge one of the mightiest forces of nature in the world? There ar emammoth rocks under the Falls that can smash wood to bits. (The Falls have neough power to pulverize a city in less than a second.) There's a vortex in the Whirlpool that can suck a boat, or barrel, under. There are winds that can whip up out of nowhere to send a high wire swaying wildly.
Yet people have attempted to go over the Falls in giant rubber balls, on inner tubes lashed together, on a jet ski, and in a kayak. They have dared the Gorge Rapids and Whirlpool in barrels, rafts and boats. They've walked tightropes carrying people on their backs, riding a motorcycle and toting a stove. Not all survived.
The mememtos of those truly amazing feats are enough for most of us - just to image, to thrill to the idea of such willing risk. To shudder. We present you a taste of what it was like for those who placed themselves in the monumental face of danges.
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