Nik Wallenda

Nikolas Wallenda ( born January 24, 1979 in Sarasota, Florida) is an American high wire artist, stuntman and extreme athlete. He is a member of the Flying Wallendas family of artistes, which goes back to the Magdeburg circus acrobats Karl Wallenda, his great-grandfather.

Career

Nik Wallenda is the son of Terry Troffer and Delilah Wall Daund was born into a family of artistes. Even with two years he balanced on the rope, but was allowed to participate only after 13 years of professional performances of his family. It was not until 1998, Wallenda decided to pursue a career as a tightrope walker, the seven -person aufführte as a part of his family pyramid on the rope. Nik Wallenda in 2001 was part of the world's first eight -person pyramid. In 2009 he set up several world records, which earned him a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

Great attention was to be run over Niagara Falls on June 15, 2012. Likewise lot of media interest earned Wallenda on June 24, 2013, when he on a 425 m long, 5 cm thick high-wire the 457 m deep gorge of the Little Colorado River at Native Indian land near the Grand Canyon National Park crossed.

Trivia

• Nik Wallenda performs his tricks traditionally made ​​without power and without hedging.
• The U.S. network American Broadcasting Company was at the live broadcast of crossing the Niagara Falls on a safety rope. Nik Wallenda said: You have now destroyed me a little of my life's dream.
• In 1978, crashed his great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, at the age of 73 years at a high-wire act in Puerto Rico in death.