Produced by Peacock Productions, Gretchen Eisele, Colleen Halpin, Knute Walker, Benjamin Ringe, Betsy Wagner, Discovery’s Howard Swartz, Nik Wallenda, David Simone, Winston Simone and Shelley Ross. It is an iconic American city that presents a number of extreme conditions and challenges that Nik has yet to attempt on such a grand scale.” 1 of 34 Nik Wallenda celebrates after walking a tightrope blindfolded between the Marina City towers. Additionally, the live event generated 1.3 million tweets.ĭiscovery’s group president for TLC and Animal Planet, Marjorie Kaplan, said, “We are excited about shifting from the natural backdrop of the Grand Canyon to the urban environment of Chicago. It also earned the cable networks’ highest-rated live event ever with 13 million viewers. It earned him the title of the first man to traverse the natural wonder. In June of last year, Discovery aired Wallenda’s successful Grand Canyon challenge. The second part of the walk will span from the Marina City’s west tower to the east tower.Īlso read: Nik Wallenda Canyon Walk Earns 13M Viewers
Not only will this be the highest skyscraper walk in the history of the “Flying Wallenda” family, it will be the first time that he has ever attempted it at such a steep angle. of the first part of the tightrope crossing, Wallenda will walk further than two city blocks – 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. Here’s the challenge according to Discovery: And feel comforted knowing that they’ll be praying along with me.”
“I want my family to be there to see history in the making. “I’m always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen,” said Wallenda, who will be joined in Chicago by his wife and three children, his close friends and an engineering team led by his father Terry Troffer.
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The production will install dozens of cameras across the city and on helicopters, which will roll as Wallenda, a seventh-generation member of famed “Flying Wallenda’s, attempts the two-part walk.Īlso read: Nik Wallenda’s Chicago ‘Skyscraper Live’ Anchors Discovery’s Adrenaline-Fueled Slate
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Hosted by NBC News’ Willie Geist, Natalie Morales and The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore, more than 220 countries will be able to watch the telecast simultaneously as the highwire pro tackles “The Windy City” spectacle without any safety tethers or a net.
"That cable looked like it was going straight up.Nik Wallenda returns with his newest death-defying challenge - a tightrope walk between skyscrapers in Chicago - for Discovery on Sunday, Nov. "If you stand on top of Marina City West and look up that cable, it's doggone intimidating," he said. Only three-quarters of an inch wide, the wire, painted white, was set at a 19-degree upward angle, higher than the 15-degrees that were originally planned, a consequence of Friday's crazy weather. "But there was some strong wind hitting me in the face." "I was ready to take a selfie, I had every intention, I'm so bummed that I didn't," he said. PHOTOS: Nik Wallenda's Chicago high-wire stunt Nik Wallenda successfully walked high across the Chicago River and blindfolded between the two landmark Marina City Towers Sunday night.ĬHICAGO (WLS) - There were moments that took people's breath away during Nik Wallenda's two skyscraper tightrope walks in Chicago Sunday night.Ĭhicagoans held their collective breath as Wallenda stepped off of Marina City's West Tower tonight, determined to complete the two-block high-wire walk across the Chicago River.
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