Six previous high-profile wire walkers had failed in their attempts to gain approval to walk the Falls since 1971.

Wallenda believes that the feat marked the first time that a wire walker attempted such a walk on any beach.

After going through some difficulty getting the cars to run, George Wallenda, the famed wire walker, advised him to use a washing machine motor.

All that other stuff, the wire walkers and trapeze fliers and lions and tigers and bears and clowns and human cannonballs, was just window dressing for the elephants.

Karl Wallenda, the greatest wire walker in history, drilled his whole family in the art and constantly sought new achievements deemed impossible.

In the late-1920's the store introduced a number of innovative marketing and promotional schemes to attract customers such as weekly automobile giveaways and high wire walkers.

McCann makes little effort to hew to the facts of Petit's story; he doesn't even name the wire walker.

I saw man on wire which is a film about a french high wire walker and thought it looked impressive.

Ms. Braham might have been a distracted wire walker who paused mid-tightrope on her voyages.

By the mid-1860s, Australian wire walkers (funambulists) were modelling themselves on Blondin, copying his techniques, with several even calling themselves "the Australian Blondin".