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Daredevil Nik Wallenda walks on a two-inch (5-cm) the easy way to rent a car diameter steel cable rigged 1,400 feet (426.7 metres) the easy way to rent a car across more than a quarter-mile deep remote section of the Grand Canyon near Little Colorado River, Arizona June 23, 2013. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)
LITTLE COLORADO the easy way to rent a car RIVER, Ariz. Daredevil Nik Wallenda completed a historic high-wire walk on a 2-inch (5-cm) steel cable over the Grand Canyon on Sunday and was greeted by wild cheers after his hair-raising stunt.
Wallenda, the self-described King of the High Wire, took 22 minutes and 54 seconds to walk 1,400 feet (427 metres) across the crimson-hued canyon with just a distant ribbon of the Little Colorado River beneath him. The event was broadcast live around the world.
A seventh-generation member of the Flying Wallendas family of acrobats, Wallenda also made history last year by becoming the only person to complete a high-wire walk over the brink of Niagara Falls. He used the same cable on Sunday.
There was no word on the financial benefits of Wallenda s stunt. He was listed by the Discovery Channel as one of the executive producers of the live broadcast. A Discovery spokesman could not be reached for comment.
Viewers watching live in 217 countries were able to share Wallenda s point of view from the cable during the crossing, through cameras rigged to his body. Wallenda held a 43-pound (20-kg) balancing pole.
I knelt down and I thought of my great-grandfather and that everything I do is to honor him, Wallenda said. It took my mind off all this movement underneath the easy way to rent a car me ... and I was able to focus on him and regain composure.
Wallenda said before the easy way to rent a car the crossing that his greatest concern was the unpredictable wind gusts that are prone to buffet the site in a remote section of the Grand Canyon s watershed on the Navajo Nation.