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UPDATE 1-Daredevil Nik Wallenda walks high wire above Milwaukee racetrack

Published 2015-08-11, 09:33 p/m
UPDATE 1-Daredevil Nik Wallenda walks high wire above Milwaukee racetrack

(Updates with Wallenda completing high-wire walk)
By Brendan O'Brien
MILWAUKEE, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Acrobat Nik Wallenda on
Tuesday completed his longest high-wire walk ever above the
Milwaukee Mile racetrack during the Wisconsin State Fair, ending
with a thumbs up to the crowd below giving him a wild ovation, a
fair official said.
Wallenda took 33 minutes to walk 1,560 feet (475 m) on a
wire no wider than a U.S. nickel 10 stories above the racetrack
near the state fair grounds.
Wallenda, the self-proclaimed King of the High Wire, has
several records listed with the Guinness World Records
organization. His feats have included high-wire walks above the
brink of Niagara Falls, between two Chicago skyscrapers while
blindfolded and across the Grand Canyon, in Arizona.
Wallenda is part of the seventh generation of the famed
Flying Wallenda family of acrobats. His great-grandfather, Karl
Wallenda, slipped and fell to his death from a high wire in
Puerto Rico in 1978.

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