Nik Wallenda reveals his next goal to repeat his grandfather's headstands on a walk across Tallulah Gorge in Georgia on July next year.
Nik Wallenda, an American high-wire artist, has just defied another daredevil stunt and set a high-wire record in crossing the Chicago River through tow skyscrapers Sunday night. Wallenda walked the high-wires without harness and at some parts wore blindfolds. He broke two Guinness World Records for the highest inclined tightrope and highest blindfolded walk.
The first wire was suspended at a 19-degree incline 500 ft. above the Chicago River. He was supposed to have the wire suspended at 15 degrees but took a sudden change minutes before the challenge and went for a steeper walk which he completed in 6 minutes and 52 seconds.
Wallenda did the blindfolded walk in the second wire starting from Marina City's West Tower to the Leo Burnett Building about 588 ft. high. He successfully finished the challenge under 7 minutes. The death-defying challenge was documented and broadcasted by Discovery through "Skyscraper Live".
Just hours after the amazing achievement, the seventh-generation aerialist told the Today show that he is already training for his next goal to walk across Tallulah Gorge in Georgia on July 18, 2015 to celebrate the 45th anniversary when Nik Wallenda's great grandfather, Karl Wallenda completed the nerve-wracking challenge in 1970.
The Tallulah Gorge walk will be a 600 ft. high-wire walk and more than 1,000 ft. long. It will be Wallenda's longest tightrope walks and hopes to do two headstands while on the rope. Wallenda's great grandfather did the headstands in this walk when he was 65 in 1970.
Wallenda, 35, also told that BBC had a chance to record his great grandfather's feat in Tallulah which he wished to be played simultaneously while he actually goes through the challenge. "I want to walk the wire with my great-grandfather," he said.