Crazy, man
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/02/travel/nik-wallenda-chicago/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
(CNN) -- Record-breaking daredevil Nik Wallenda will attempt on Sunday what he calls his most challenging feat to date: a tightrope walk between two skyscrapers 600 feet above downtown Chicago.
The seventh-generation aerialist's "Skyscraper Live" walk is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. ET and will air live on Discovery.
The walk will consists of two parts, starting from Marina City's West Tower, about 588 feet high. He will cross above the Chicago River to the Leo Burnett Building, finishing 671 feet above the street, according to Skyscraper Live's website.
After he returns to the West Tower, he will cross to the East Tower blindfolded as he braces against estimated wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour.
As a member of the famous Flying Wallendas, founded by his grandfather Karl Wallenda in the 1920s, Wallenda is no stranger to death-defying stunts. He walked across a wire 1,500 feet above a river in Arizona in June 2013, becoming the first person to traverse the gorge near Grand Canyon Park in Arizona. Before that, he made a record-breaking journey across Niagara Falls in 2012.
Peril also runs in the Wallenda family. Wallenda's great-grandfather Karl Wallenda was killed at 73, attempting to walk between two buildings in Puerto Rico in 1978.
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A good drinking game would be to take a shot every time he says Jesus!
LOL 😮
I have a huge fear of heights. I don't think I could walk out to the ledge of one of those buildings.
Jesus Sh*t....he's out there practicing. Like you rusty, heights mess me up. I get nervous driving in mountains.
I get dizzy wearing boots with heels!
How can these announcers be so calm? This is fricking Crazy, Jesus. I'm trying to get Brock drunk. 
and carrying a 45 lb bar.....uphill Jesus
Watching him just now out by the building ledge induces a serious pucker factor! I got up to go to the fridge and the sofa cushions came with me!
LOL 😮
Sh*t
A good drinking game would be to take a shot every time he says Jesus!
One minute in and you'd be $hit-faced already!
The aerial shots sure make him look small! 😮
I've had a lotta' shots since this all started, Brock... 😛
Since he's from Sarasota i'm waiting for him to say Hi to Dickey.
"I'd planned on doing a selfie right about now ..."
Was he kidding?
Was very near Nik's place when @ Dickey's show last night.
Yay!!
"I'd planned on doing a selfie right about now ..."
Was he kidding?
Really. It's not like he's at a concert!
Was very near Nik's place when @ Dickey's show last night.
He could've dropped in.
Was very near Nik's place when @ Dickey's show last night.
He could've dropped in.
😛
screw all of you naysayers, this is not some Doug Henning or David Copperfield illusion.
He does make it look easy, but...how many are out there attempting this?
Seven generations of this stuff in his blood.
I've lived near the Wallenda's most all my life, and always thought the family is incredibly talented.
If anything, this is more akin to gymnastics. He's very trained and disciplined. I doubt there are many people who could do what he does.
ask the police......i have trouble walking straight lines
THIS would be the ultimate field sobriety test!
THIS would be the ultimate field sobriety test!
With...or without the blindfold? 😉
there was an old man i knew when i worked at a harley shop and he used to ride a motorcycle at fairs blind folded......he told me it was a trick
Incredible!
that was wild WTG Nik
there was an old man i knew when i worked at a harley shop and he used to ride a motorcycle at fairs blind folded......he told me it was a trick
I don't know about the motorcycle. But at 600 + feet - there seems to be a little more at stake here!
