tight rope walk across grand canyon

[BigonaBianchi]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/24/us-usa-highwire-grandcanyon-idUSBRE95K15Z20130624

tight rope walk across grand canyon.

not sure if this is impressive or just crazy

 

[Archie_tect]

He needs to stop going to the pub, so he can't agree to do daft things...

 

[Nearly there]

Good effort a bit of a nutter if slightly irresponsible with having kids

 

[threebikesmcginty]

One of my all-time favourite films: http://www.manonwire.com/

Brilliant film!

 

[Beebo]

Good effort a bit of a nutter if slightly irresponsible with having kids

He's a circus performer, it's what he does. His grandfather died at 73 from a high wire fall, so i'm sure he knows the risks better than most.
Having said that you wouldnt catch me up there, with or without kids.

 

[Archie_tect]

You'd think someone would have built a bridge across it by now...

 

[classic33]

You'd think someone would have built a bridge across it by now...

Where would the fun or the challenge lay in walking across a bridge!

 

[vernon]

There are so many things you could say that about though. Is everyone supposed to stop living/risking anything the moment they have children?

One of my all-time favourite films: http://www.manonwire.com/

As someone who gets dizzy standing on a thick carpet, the trailer on the web site was enough to dissuade me from hiring/buying the DVD. Hats off to the funambulists who do the high stuff. I really don't know what spurs some of them to do it without harnesses safety nets or parachutes.

 

[Archie_tect]

Classic33, you are saying this to someone who was driven in a coach with 32 other 8 year olds from a small school near Leeds to see onto The Forth Road Bridge when it first opened... the same school who had a trip, on an old double decker bus, down the newly opened M1 to visit the new Woolley Edge Services.
Life doesn't get more exciting than that...

 

[vernon]

Where would the fun or the challenge lay in walking across a bridge!

Try this for size:

 

[classic33]

Try this for size:

Where's the bridge then.

 

[classic33]

Classic33, you are saying this to someone who was driven in a coach with 32 other 8 year olds from a small school near Leeds to see onto The Forth Road Bridge when it first opened... the same school who had a trip, on an old double decker bus, down the newly opened M1 to visit the new Woolley Edge Services.
Life doesn't get more exciting than that...

Having worked at Woolley Edge for one weekend, I think I'm safe in saying there's not much there.

 

[Archie_tect]

...and by implication...

 

[vernon]

Vernon, please don't let that put you off. There isn't much in the film to give you grief, but an awful lot that is subtle, funny, thought-provoking, life-affirming and celebratory. But of course you'd have to trust me on that one.

I'd trust you with my life.

 

[ASC1951]

Vernon, please don't let that put you off. There isn't much in the film to give you grief, but an awful lot that is subtle, funny, thought-provoking, life-affirming and celebratory. But of course you'd have to trust me on that one.

And me. It's an excellent film.