Daredevil Nik Wallenda takes first steps on wire-walk across Niagara Falls; 1,800-foot journey full story ![]()
NIAGARA FALLS – Daredevil Nik Wallenda, whose high-wire walk over Niagara Falls June 15 won new publicity for the area, was announced Friday as an award winner and keynote speaker for the Niagara USA Chamber’s annual awards gala March 22 in the Seneca Niagara Casino and Hotel.Wallenda is to receive the Visionary Award from the business group, president and CEO Deanna Brennen...
buffalonews.com (3 months and 8 days ago)
NIAGARA FALLS – It’s been 9 months since the King of the High Wire took his last step over the raging cataracts of Niagara Falls.And boy did Nik Wallenda miss them.“I feel like a kid at Disney World every time I come back,” Wallenda said at a news conference this morning. “There’s just something alluring about the falls.”Wallenda, in town to receive an award from the Niagara...
buffalonews.com (1 month and 26 days ago)

Nik Wallenda made history last year by becoming the first person to walk over Horseshoe Falls on a tightrope, but his bucket list of crazy stunts doesn't stop there.
independent.co.uk (2 months ago)

A US daredevil is using his latest stunt to honour his great-grandfather who died in 1978 attempting a similar wire walk.
sky.com (2 months and 1 day ago)
Nik Wallenda, the daredevil who crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope last year, will try a similar stunt at the Grand Canyon in June, he announced on Monday.
nytimes.com (2 months and 2 days ago)

Daredevil had hoped to practice at Nathan Benderson Park
heraldtribune.com (1 month and 5 days ago)
Nik “The King of the High Wire” Wallenda will walk on a tightrope strung over the Grand Canyon.
foxnews.com (2 months and 2 days ago)
March 19 - High-wire stuntman Nik Wallenda announces he will tightrope walk across a section of the Grand Canyon. Sharon Reich reports.
reuters.com (2 months ago)
Miami plastic surgeon Dr. Lenny Roudner hosted his annual bash Saturday at his home on Hibiscus Island. Among those spotted gawking at the headlining entertainment, daredevil and tightrope walker Nik Wallenda, who in June walked on a tight rope over Niagara Falls and on Saturday did a cake walk over Hibiscus Island: Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, Cuba Gooding Jr. and, says...
miamiherald.com (2 months and 15 days ago)

"Are you nuts?"Nik Wallenda, whose appearance Sunday morning at the Worship Center was staged as a casual question-and-answer session before some 1,200 people, receives an easy one to get the ball rolling."Yes," he replies.Wallenda is the seventh generation of The Flying Wallendas, a family that, fo...
lancasteronline.com (1 month and 9 days ago)
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