![]() Using dozens of cameras positioned across the city and on helicopters, Discovery will follow Wallendas attempted. "I think anybody who does something like this is crazy and it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see it," Scott Jensen said. Discovery has set November 2 for Nik Wallendas Chicago skyscraper tightrope walk. They were bundled up and eating sandwiches while seated on a concrete planter with a nearly straight-overhead view of the high wire. Hours before the tightrope walk, Scott Jensen of Schaumburg, a Chicago suburb, waited to watch the spectacle with his 15-year-old son, Matthew, and Matthew's friend Tommy Demaret, also 15. 2 (at 7 pm ET/4 pm PT) as the tightrope walker attempts to make his way. What an amazing roar, the 35-year-old said as he crossed above the Chicago River. I love Chicago, and Chicago definitely loves me. Discovery Channel will air Skyscraper Live With Nik Wallenda on Nov. The Skyscraper Live walk was broadcast on Discovery. The Marina City towers have been on screens - Steve McQueen chased a fugitive around the west tower's corkscrew parking ramp in "The Hunter" - and graced the album cover of Wilco's 2002 "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." The King of the Highwire is headed to Chicago. The network plans to keep the almost-live telecast of Wallenda's progress on viewers' TV screens even during the commercials, using a "double box" that will show advertisements and Wallenda simultaneously. The Discovery Channel hoped to capture an elusive real-time audience in the DVR era. Two of his previous televised tightrope walks - over the brink of Niagara Falls in 2012 and across the Little Colorado River Gorge in 2013 - drew about 13 million viewers each. Residents of Marina City have been asked not to use laser pointers, camera flashes or drones that could interfere. Months of preparations have meant helicopters lifting cable to the rooftops, road closures and clearances from the Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. He had previously walked on a tightrope over the Niagara Falls and became the first person to successfully traverse the Grand Canyon in June last year."Yes there's some wind, yes it's cool, but it's not unbearable," he said. ![]() Part of the "Flying Wallendas," Nik comes from a long line of tightrope walkers. T he daredevil Nik Wallenda successfully walked between. Then, blindfolded, he crossed the 94ft between the Marina City's and east towers in one minute 17 seconds. High-wire performer Nik Wallenda walks on a 3/4 inch (1.91 cm) wire between buildings across the Chicago River in Chicago, Nov. #SkyscraperLive /lEEXFEH2jS- NBC News PR November 3, 2014 It took Nik six minutes and 52 seconds to complete the first stage 500ft (152m) above the ground - in winds that were gusting at up to 25mph breaks not one, but two and talk with him & his family. What a way to walk in Chicago! Congrats #NikWallenda! /IcRqIzcfO0- Hampton Lincolnshire November 3, 2014įor the Highest Incline Tightrope Walk record Wallenda walked uphill rising to a 15-degree angle from the iconic Marina City's west tower to the Leo Burnett Building at more than 50 stories high above the Chicago River. The 35-year-old completed both crossings without a safety net or a harness. The heart-stopping attempts, which were viewed by thousands of onlookers below, along with a watching live TV audience on the Discovery Channel, saw Wallenda set new records for Highest Incline Tightrope Walk and Highest Blindfolded Tightrope Walk. US daredevil tightrope walker Nik Wallenda notched up two new world records yesterday after successfully completing back-to-back high-wire walks above the city of Chicago.
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