![]() “It’s unbelievable that you were thinking about taking a selfie out there!” Morales marveled after Leg 1 wrapped, as she took a selfie with him from atop one of the skyscrapers. Nearing the finish, he opted instead to thank the mortals calling the shots at Discovery, calmly ticking off names like an old pro at a Hollywood trophy show acceptance speech: “Marjorie Kaplan, you’re awesome, Zaslav – Laurie Goldberg, I love ya – Howard Swartz, amazing, Mike Sorensen, Eileen O’Neill – you guys rock!” “Thank you, God, for the amazing talent you’ve given me,” Wallenda said modestly as he approached the halfway mark on the first leg of his two record-setting walks. It was the first time Wallenda walked a tightrope blindfolded - in ’11, he performed acrobatic moves while blindfolded, on a gadget called The Wheel of Death that hung off the side of the Tropicana Casino and Resort’s 23rd floor in Atlantic City.īefore finally taking his first step on the wire in Chicago, Wallenda prayed with his “good luck charm,” as Geist’s described televangelist Joel Osteen. And, by giving viewers a full 90-minutes of walk-up blah, blah, blah before Wallenda actually took his first step for the special, which started at 7 PM ET, the network ran its biggest risks of the night – aggravating viewers out of their wits. Even so, Peacock Productions President and General Manager Sharon Scott said before tonight the telecast would have a 10-second delay. Viewer discretion is advised,” Discovery said ominously on screen before the program’s start. “There is an incredible risk involved in this endeavor. Wallenda's great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, fell to his death at age 73 from a high wire in Puerto Rico in 1978.Jo Ling Kent Joins CBS News As Senior Business And Technology Correspondent The first skyscraper walk was 454 feet long (138 meters), rising to 671 feet (206 meters) the second was 94 feet long (29 meters), at a height of 543 feet (166 meters). Wallenda has also previously walked over the brink of Niagara Falls. "You probably saw me shaking like a leaf, this wire was shaking underneath me and you know I just wanted to make to the other side I wasn't gonna think twice, I was getting on the wire and I am going," Wallenda said. Wallenda said in an interview on Discovery after the walks that wire was shaking when he walked blindfolded. The walk broke the world record for an incline high-wire walk, according to a representative from Guinness World Records interviewed on Discovery Channel which broadcast the event.įor the second part of the walk, Wallenda walked blindfolded from Marina City's west tower to the east tower, breaking the world record for the highest blindfolded high-wire walk. It was the highest skyscraper walk in the history of the "Flying Wallenda" family of acrobats, and the first time Wallenda attempted a walk at such a steep angle. As he approached the end of the first walk he said, "God is in control."įor the first walk on a steel wire, the 35-year-old Wallenda went more than two city blocks uphill, rising at a 19-degree angle, from the west tower of the Marina City towers to the Leo Burnett Building more than 50 stories above Chicago River. To the cheers of a crowd of tens of thousands on streets below, Wallenda spoke cheerfully of the view as he walked the wire over the Chicago River. Daredevil Nik Wallenda broke two world records on Sunday (November 2) with two high-wire walks between Chicago skyscrapers without a net or harness, doing the second walk blindfolded.
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