Nik Wallenda has successfully completed the two tightrope walks setting two new Guinness World Records in a televised tightrope walk event in Chicago, Illinois. It was aired on Nov. 2, 2014 on the Discovery Channel.
Nikolas "Nik" Wallenda is an American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist and author. He is popularly recognized for his high-wire performances without a safety net. He currently holds nine Guinness World Records. Based on The Washington Post report, he is also the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls on June 15, 2012, although with a legally required safety harness.
Nik Wallenda is the seventh-generation member of "The Flying Wallendas" family. He made is his professional tightrope walking debut at age 13, although he had participated in several circus acts as a child. In 2001, he was a part of the world's first seven-person high-wire pyramid. He set new personal bests for highest and longest tightrope walks in 2009, after completed a total of 15 walks above 100 feet in the air.
In 2008, Wallenda set Guinness World Records for longest and highest bicycle ride on the high-wire 250-foot-long ride at 135 feet above the ground in New Jersey. He set a world record in 2011 by performing on the Wheel of Death on top of the 23-story Tropicana Casino and Resort. On June 10, 2011, he made an appalling act by hung from a helicopter 250 feet off the ground using only his teeth to hold on.
Wallenda released a memoir entitled "Balance" in 2013. He became the first person to high-wire walk across a Grand Canyon area gorge crossing the Little Colorado River outside Grand Canyon National Park.
On Nov. 2, 2014, Nik Wallenda successfully completed two tightrope walks, setting two new Guinness World Records. According to BBC News, the world records are: one is for walking the steepest tightrope incline between two buildings either of the Chicago River and the other for the highest tightrope walk between the two Marina City towers while blindfolded.
Because of the recent world records, Wallenda further established himself as the undeniable "King of the Wire" of his generation. His stunning performances leave the whole American nation in a brazen combination of excitement, breathless exaggeration and remarkable theatrical stagecraft. According to Variety, Wallenda survived his own high-wire act after 95 minutes of foreplay.
With Wallenda's outstanding tightrope performances on Sunday night, the daredevil certainly has done it again. He landed safe and sound as more than 60,000 people cheered him of the ground.
"My life is inspiring people. How am I going to inspire people to never give up if I don't allow myself to become better?" Nik Wallenda elucidated Sunday night. "It's very easy to become complacent when you've done something for seven generations... It's all about pushing myself."
After Wallenda's brave actions that earned him new Guinness World Records, E! News said he already made big plans for next year. He desires to walk on another rope 600 feet high and a thousand feet long. However, this time it comes with an added twist.
Nik Wallenda is married with three children, and considers his Christian faith to be the central aspect of his life. His great-grandfather is Karl Wallenda, a high-wire artist as well.
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