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Along the way, he had a word or two with God. But unlike his chosen deity, he had no guaranteed ability to survive being dashed down upon the rocks Matthew or, in the event that he missed them, locomote across water to land. Matthew In his hands, numbed by cold mist and wind as he crossed, Wallenda carried a pound balance bar.
On his feet, navigating the wire and dark void, were special-grip elkskin-soled slippers, made by his mother. His "Flying Wallenda" ancestors made their names and livings by accomplishing similar stunts in other times and places.
A few of his relatives died trying them. Tempting fate is an odd vocation, but an enormously lucrative one should one a survive and b convince enough people to watch. To that end, there was no shortage of hype this weekend in the tourist trap twin cities of Niagara Falls, which found themselves awash in even more kitsch than usual. From Nik Wallenda T-Shirts to Nik Wallenda refrigerator magnets, hawkers offered to sell tourists a piece of history, should they have paused from the casinos and honeymoon hotels long enough to have witnessed the event.
Media forecasts that , people would gather on the ground for the event seemed somewhat overblown. While massive crowds assembled, it was still possible to book hotel rooms and find cheap parking hours before the feat. Millions more eyeballs were secured by the live-television deal Wallenda signed with a US network television, even though ABC wrangled a 11th hour concession from him in return for the coverage: a tiny tether tied him to his tightrope, so as to spare TV viewers of the possible spectacle of a man plummeting to his demise.
Since the Great Blondin took his high-wire walk, a ban had been in place on similar stunts over the famed falls. Wallenda waged a two-year crusade to convince U.
Wallenda repeated that walk last year with his mother. Wallenda said he would next prepare for a walk over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, which would be the first ever attempted and roughly three times longer than the walk over Niagara Falls.
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