

touchdowns while running 27 yards for another score - a tight-rope walk down. to stretch the tightrope across the falls. Now, Reid is headed back to the big game for the first time since the 2004. He and nine other employees had worked day and night, beginning Tuesday at 7 a.m. 'Yes, Dave, tight rope walker.' Sam breathed an, 'Oh, boy.' PART ONE. The man looked at him with a quizzical look and bobbed his head. Hill, 47, a lineman for the O’Connell Electric Company, inspected his one-person cage and its equipment, peering over each side as he rode closer to the falls. You are one of the best tight rope walkers I have seen in years.' Sam’s eyes widened at that last remark. “I think it’s pretty cool, but also insane,” Michaela said.ĭan Hill rode a small gondola attached to the 1,800-foot cable stretched across the water. Stamler, they stopped to stare and to say they had been part of the day when a man walked as close to the falls as anyone ever has.
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Most of the visitors left well before the nighttime walk, because they did not have tickets - state parks officials sold out 4,000 tickets in five minutes - but, like Ms. Even if you don’t gravitate towards the sport F1, I felt the exact same way, but now I know every single one of those drivers and the (team principals) and all of those guys. Browse 1,554 tightrope walker stock photos and images available, or search for tightrope walker circus or tightrope walker water to find more great stock photos and pictures. By then, the parking lot was filled with cars from throughout the Northeast and from as far away as California and North Carolina. 1 Modelling himself on the famous French wire-walker Charles Blondin, L'Estrange performed a number of tightrope walks in the 1870s, culminating in three walks across Sydney's Middle Harbour in 1877. Stamler and her niece, 12-year-old Michaela Preston, drove from nearby Grand Island, N.Y., to view the tightrope midmorning. Henri L'Estrange, known as the Australian Blondin, was an Australian successful funambulist and accident prone aeronautical balloonist. “He picked the right day, didn’t he?” Cindy Stamler said. The view from the edge of Niagara Falls State Park matched the postcards in a nearby gift shop: wispy clouds curled across the bright blue sky a rainbow stretched through the mist toward Canada, and gulls cried out above the hum of the falls.
