Daredevil cleared for Niagara Falls tightrope walk

Daredevil Nik Wallenda is set to walk a 1,800 foot (549m) tightrope across Niagara Falls this summer, a feat the seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas said has been his childhood dream.

Daredevil cleared for Niagara Falls tightrope walk

“I feel like I’m on top of the world,” Wallenda said after the Niagara Parks Commission, which months ago refused even to consider the idea, voted unanimously to allow the walk between the United States and Canada.

Approval from the Canadian panel was Wallenda’s largest remaining obstacle after he convinced the New York Legislature to pass a bill allowing the walk last year.

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