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- Nik Wallenda was born on January 29, 1979 in Sarasota, Florida, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Megastunts: Highwire Over Niagara Falls Live (2012), Volcano Live! with Nik Wallenda (2020) and All There Is: A Circus Story (2019). He has been married to Erendira Wallenda since 1999. They have three children.
- SpouseErendira Wallenda(1999 - present) (3 children)
- Grandson of Karl Wallenda.
- Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. He crossed some 200 feet in the air on a two-inch-wide tightrope over the raging waters of Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the three falls that make up Niagara Falls. He walked from the U.S. and stepped into Canada, barely 25 minutes after he started.
- Parents are Delilah Wallenda and Terry Troffer.
- He became the first person to walk on a high wire over the Grand Canyon during the live broadcast of Skywire Live with Nik Wallenda (2013).
- I tell mom to 'watch it' in every show. When I look like I'm off-balance? Moving my bar like crazy? All to build drama. People understand that we're entertainers. That's where our skills come in, and believe it or not, it's the hard part of what we do.
- Rule of thumb to even be on the wire: you have to be able to do ten chin-ups and pull your body over the wire ten times.
- (on attempting to cross Niagara Falls on a high-wire) My idea scenario would be a foggy day. I disappear into the mist, then appear on the other side. How cool would that be? Worst case scenario: I sit down on the wire , the helicopter swoops in, I hook on and they get me out of there. I look goofy but nobody gets hurt.
- We take pride in being a zero-impact operation. We don't drill into any rock or pull up any grass. We'll use cranes, and we're trying to arrange the rigging so no cable will even touch water when we set up. The 'Maid of the Mist', I would hope, would continue to run. You'll never know we were there.
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