Tightrope walking, also called funambulism, is the skill of walking along a thin wire or rope. It has a long tradition in various countries and is commonly...

people, both in the UK and all over the world. Skelton walked a 150-metre tightrope between chimneys at Battersea Power Station, 66 metres above ground, to...

Other skills similar to tightrope walking include slack rope walking and slacklining. High wire act Korean tightrope-walking, Jultagi Tumbling is an acrobatic...

three times and had eight children. His name became synonymous with tightrope walking. Blondin was born on 28 February 1824 in Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, France...

the head, lies in the arms of his mother after an accident during a tightrope walking performance. The light in the painting is centered on the child and...

walker, or tightrope walker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tightrope walking is the art of walking along a thin wire or rope. Tightrope or Tight rope...

publicity in 2007 at Higashiyama Zoo when he was 10 years old by tightrope walking. Shabani was the subject of further media attention in 2015, described...

in 472 films. The Twin Towers were also used in Philippe Petit's tightrope-walking performance on August 7, 1974. Following the September 11 attacks...

Slacklining is similar to slack rope walking and tightrope walking. Slacklines differ from tightwires and tightropes in the type of material used and the...

acts as a child. He made his professional tightrope walking debut at the age of 13, and he chose high-wire walking as his career in 1998 after joining family...