Walking a tight rope

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Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the US side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Reuters/Mark Blinch

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Aerialist Nik Wallenda tighropes over the Niagara Falls in New York. ABC televised the event and insisted the daredevil wear a teathered harness to prevent live coverage of a potentially deadly fall 190 feet into the churning torrent below. AFP/John Moore

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Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda celebrates after walking the high wire from the US side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Reuters/Mike Cassese

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Aerialist Nik Wallenda tightropes over the Niagara Falls. Wallenda walked across the 1,800 foot long, 2 inch-wide wire as the first person to cross directly over the falls from the US into Canada. AFP/John Moore

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Aerialist Nik Wallenda tightropes over the Niagara Falls in Canada. AFP/John Moore

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Famed tightrope walker Nik Wallenda completed the first walk across Niagara Falls in over a century, braving winds and heavy spray in his historic feat. AFP/Geoff Robins

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The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. AP/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn

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Nik Wallenda pumps his fist as he completes his 1,800 feet-long tightrope walk over the brink of the Niagara Falls in Ontario. AP/The Canadian Press, Aaron Vincent Elkaim

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Spectators watch tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walk the high wire from the US side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara, Ontario. Reuters/Mike Cassese

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Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the US side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara, Ontario. Reuters/Mike Cassese

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Nik Wallenda looks out prior to his tightrope walk in Niagara Falls, NY to attempt what nobody has done before: A high wire walk directly over the precipice at Niagara Falls and 190 feet above the churning torrent below. AP/David Duprey

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Spectators check out the view where Nik Wallenda walked a tightrope over Niagara Falls in Ontario. AP/The Canadian Press, Aaron Vincent Elkaim

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Nik Wallenda greets fans after inspecting the wire prior to his walk across Niagara Falls in NY. AP/David Duprey

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A family looks as the Maid of the Mist turns around at Niagara Falls, where Nik Wallenda walked a 550 metre-long tightrope in Niagara Falls, Ontario. AP/The Canadian Press, Aaron Vincent Elkaim

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New York State Parks employee Evyn Costanzo monitors peregrine falcons along the Niagara Gorge before Nik Wallenda's walk across Niagara Falls on a wire in NY. AP/Gary Wiepert

Walking a tight rope

Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the US side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Reuters/Mark Blinch

Aerialist Nik Wallenda tighropes over the Niagara Falls in New York. ABC televised the event and insisted the daredevil wear a teathered harness to prevent live coverage of a potentially deadly fall 190 feet into the churning torrent below. AFP/John Moore

Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda celebrates after walking the high wire from the US side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Reuters/Mike Cassese

Aerialist Nik Wallenda tightropes over the Niagara Falls. Wallenda walked across the 1,800 foot long, 2 inch-wide wire as the first person to cross directly over the falls from the US into Canada. AFP/John Moore

Aerialist Nik Wallenda tightropes over the Niagara Falls in Canada. AFP/John Moore

Famed tightrope walker Nik Wallenda completed the first walk across Niagara Falls in over a century, braving winds and heavy spray in his historic feat. AFP/Geoff Robins

The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. AP/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn

Nik Wallenda pumps his fist as he completes his 1,800 feet-long tightrope walk over the brink of the Niagara Falls in Ontario. AP/The Canadian Press, Aaron Vincent Elkaim

Spectators watch tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walk the high wire from the US side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara, Ontario. Reuters/Mike Cassese

Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the US side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara, Ontario. Reuters/Mike Cassese

Nik Wallenda looks out prior to his tightrope walk in Niagara Falls, NY to attempt what nobody has done before: A high wire walk directly over the precipice at Niagara Falls and 190 feet above the churning torrent below. AP/David Duprey

Spectators check out the view where Nik Wallenda walked a tightrope over Niagara Falls in Ontario. AP/The Canadian Press, Aaron Vincent Elkaim

Nik Wallenda greets fans after inspecting the wire prior to his walk across Niagara Falls in NY. AP/David Duprey

A family looks as the Maid of the Mist turns around at Niagara Falls, where Nik Wallenda walked a 550 metre-long tightrope in Niagara Falls, Ontario. AP/The Canadian Press, Aaron Vincent Elkaim

New York State Parks employee Evyn Costanzo monitors peregrine falcons along the Niagara Gorge before Nik Wallenda's walk across Niagara Falls on a wire in NY. AP/Gary Wiepert

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