tightrope

Eden Dally quits SAS Australia after freezing during tightrope challenge

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After being tasked with crawling across a tightrope suspended above the ocean, Eden Dally backed out at the final moment and quit during Monday’s SAS Australia. The 29-year-old former Love Island star admitted he was petrified, and told DS (directing staff) Billy Billingham: ‘I don’t think I can do this one. It’s bringing up bad … Read more

Daredevils dodge lava bombs while crossing an active volcano on a tightrope to set world record

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Two adrenaline junkies have set a world record by walking the first slackline over an active volcano. Alexander Schulz, 28, from Germany, and Rafael Bridi, 33, from Brazil, crossed the crater of the Yasur volcano on Tanna Island, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean – walking on a one inch wide strip of webbing. The volcano … Read more

Roll up, roll up! Clever squirrel walks a tightrope to get his paws on a peanut 

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Roll up, roll up! Clever squirrel walks a tightrope to get his paws on a peanut Rocky the squirrel was determined to claim the peanut dangling from a wire The squirrel tried reaching up and jumping across to the nut in the video Eventually he decides to walk the wire in the garden in New … Read more

The world’s greatest high-wire artiste reveals the secret to walking a tightrope at insane height 

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BOOK OF THE WEEK ON THE HIGH WIRE By Philippe Petit (Weidenfeld & Nicholson £9.99, 115pp)  When my son ran away to join the circus, I more or less ran away with him. I couldn’t be kept away from the Academy of Circus Arts, the apprentice arm of Zippos. Most weekends, I would cook a … Read more