DAREDEVIL Nik Wallenda Walks Tight Rope Across Niagara Falls

Nik Wallenda

'What is the purpose of your trip, sir?" the customs agent asked Nik Wallenda when he presented his passport at the Canadian border. "To inspire people around the world," he replied.
With over 100,000 people on the ground watching the night-time stunt under glaring spotlights, and millions more listening in to Wallenda's miked-up prayers on live television as he made his way across, the 33-year-old daredevil fulfilled a lifelong dream that was also a family destiny. Read More and See Exclusives Pictures

 Daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls, taking steady, measured steps Friday night for 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of the roaring falls separating the U.S. and Canada.

 “I feel like I’m on cloud nine right now,” an exuberant Wallenda told reporters after accomplishing what he said was his childhood dream before an estimated over 100,000 people crowding the shores of both countries and millions more who watched a live television broadcast.


He described wind “coming from every which way,” mist so powerful he had to blink it away to maintain his vision and a breathtaking view during the nighttime walk illuminated by spotlights that “compared to nothing.”

“There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable,” said Wallenda, 33. “If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation.”


He said he accomplished the feat through “a lot of praying, that’s for sure. But, you know, it’s all about the concentration, the focus, and the training.”