This daredevil is following in his great granddad’s perilous steps.
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda, known for his breathtaking 2012 high-wire walk over Niagara Falls, says he’d next like to tackle the same daring rope crossing achieved by his great-grandfather in 1970. That would be the Tallulah Gorge in northeast Georgia, a 1,000-foot-deep gorge that Karl Wallenda successfully walked in front of 30,000 spectators.
The younger Wallenda, a seventh-generation member of The Flying Wallendas, wants to cross the gorge in the next three years.
The elder Wallenda died in 1978 when he fell while trying to walk on a cable strung between two buildings in San Juan, Puerto Rico.