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Origins
- The Greeks and the Romans were among the first to take to a tightrope. Ancient frescoes unearthed at Pompeii depict scenes where dark-skinned, blonde-haired dancers are seen walking a tightrope and using a thyrsus, the staff sacred to Bacchus, the god of wine-making, as a balancing tool.
© Getty Images
1 / 30 Fotos
Street performers
- History records these acrobats performing high above the streets of Rome and even in the Coliseum. The Romans called these artists funambula, and today funambulist is the technical term for wire walkers, tightrope walkers, and slackliners.
© Getty Images
2 / 30 Fotos
Highwire act
- These highwire acts were also played out by some tightrope walkers while clutching a kithara, a seven-stringed musical instrument also used by the ancient Greeks.
© Getty Images
3 / 30 Fotos
Jultagi
- Jultagi, the traditional Korean performance of tightrope-walking, likely originated in the Silla era, a Korean kingdom that existed between 57 BCE–935 CE. This highly skilled discipline still exists to this day.
© Shutterstock
4 / 30 Fotos
Chinese acrobats
- In fact, in the eyes of chroniclers, the acrobats of the Far East were the best rope dancers in the world. Chinese variety art in particular showcased examples of extraordinary skill on the highwire.
© Getty Images
5 / 30 Fotos
Medieval tightrope dancing
- Tightrope walking as a performance art became popular in Europe during the 13th century. And it was during the medieval period that highwire acts generally became more elaborate.
© Getty Images
6 / 30 Fotos
The rope tightens across Europe
- It was not uncommon to see female acrobats take a turn on the wire. In fact, women were valued members of traveling circus troupes, their lighter weight proving a distinct advantage when traversing a rope.
© Getty Images
7 / 30 Fotos
Fairground attraction
- In England, traveling fairs often included performers walking a tightrope. In this 1733 illustration of Southwark Fair in London, a tightrope walker is seen interrupting his routine with a mid-wire flip.
© Getty Images
8 / 30 Fotos
Pierre Forioso
- Tightrope superstars emerged in Paris after the Revolution. Among the most celebrated was Pierre Forioso. In 1807, he walked on a rope from the Pont de la Concorde to the Pont des Tuileries to celebrate Napoleon's birthday. He's pictured here in this 1817 engraving with his troupe of rope dancers.
© Getty Images
9 / 30 Fotos
Marietta Ravel and Madame Saqui
- Marietta Ravel, a guitar-playing tightrope artist from the celebrated Ravel family of pantomimists, and Madame Saqui (Marguerite-Antoinette Lalanne) were two of the most renowned female rope walkers performing in 19th-century France.
© Getty Images
10 / 30 Fotos
Charles Blondin (1824–1897)
- But the person who took tightrope walking to a high art was Jean François Gravelet, better known as Charles Blondin.
© Getty Images
11 / 30 Fotos
The daredevil of Niagara Falls
- Having wowed audiences in his native France and Europe with his highwire prowess, Blondin stunned America in 1859 by walking over Niagara Falls. It was an unbelievable feat of balance and daring, and made Blondin an instant celebrity.
© Getty Images
12 / 30 Fotos
Repeat performances
- Enjoying his newfound fame, Blondin repeated the walk on several other occasions, often with different theatrical variations: blindfolded, pushing a wheelbarrow, and even carrying a man (his manager, a very anxious Harry Colcord) on his back. And all this without the use of a safety harness!
© Getty Images
13 / 30 Fotos
Maria Spelterini (1853–1912)
- On July 8, 1876, Italian tightrope walker Maria Spelterini made her own crossing of Niagara Gorge. She crossed three more times, wearing peach baskets strapped to her feet (pictured) in one instance, then walking blindfolded, and finally with her ankles and wrists manacled.
© Getty Images
14 / 30 Fotos
Stephen Peer (1840-1887)
- Not everyone was as sure-footed as Charles Blondin or Maria Spelterini. On June 25, 1887, Canadian funambulist Stephen Peer fell to his death while attempting to cross Niagara Falls despite having successfully completed the feat on several previous occasions.
© Getty Images
15 / 30 Fotos
Henri L'Estrange (c. 1842–1894)
- On the other side of the world, an Australian funambulist by the very French-sounding name of Henri L'Estrange became the first person to walk across part of Sydney Harbor.
© Public Domain
16 / 30 Fotos
Con Colleano (1899–1973)
- Another Australian, Con Colleano (born Cornelius Sullivan) was the first to successfully execute a forward somersault on a tightrope, in 1919. This daring achievement earned him the sobriquet "The Wizard of the Wire."
© Getty Images
17 / 30 Fotos
Bird Millman (1890–1940)
- American highwire performer Bird Millman O'Day was one of the most celebrated tightrope walkers of her generation. A member of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Millman performed throughout the United States as well as in Europe. Image: Popular Mechanics, 1917
© Public Domain
18 / 30 Fotos
A marriage made in heaven
- Throughout the middle half of the 20th century, the tightrope spectacle was largely confined to circus acts and publicity stunts like this one, when on March 22, 1959, two aerialists, Roland Schmidt and Francine Pary, got married 65 ft (20 m) above ground on a wire set between the two towers of La Rochelle Harbor in France.
© Getty Images
19 / 30 Fotos
Philippe Petit
- Then suddenly, the tightrope made international headlines. French highwire artist Philippe Petit first gained international fame for his unauthorized tightrope walk between the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971.
© Getty Images
20 / 30 Fotos
Philippe Petit
- But it was his astonishing walk between the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in 1974 that garnered him superstardom. A documentary, 'Man on Wire' (2008), chronicles the event, while a 2015 movie, 'The Walk,' dramatizes the extraordinary episode. Petit is pictured at Ground Zero on October 17, 2001, the site where the Twin Towers once stood and where he performed his breathtaking stunt.
© Getty Images
21 / 30 Fotos
Karl Wallenda (1905–1978)
- German-American highwire artist Karl Wallenda was the founder of renowned daredevil circus troupe The Flying Wallendas, and is perhaps the most iconic tightrope walker. He performed several dangerous skywalks, often without a safety device. In 1978, he attempted a walk between the two towers of the 10-story Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Half way across he lost his balance and fell to his death. He was 73 years old. Wallenda is pictured in 1976 performing near Tower Bridge in London.
© Getty Images
22 / 30 Fotos
Nik Wallenda
- Nik Wallenda, great-grandson of Karl, upholds the family tradition. Among his many accomplishments is his astonishing 2014 walk from the west tower to the east tower of Marina City in Chicago, which he undertook blindfolded. Poignantly, he had earlier completed Karl Wallenda's walk between the two towers of the Condado Plaza Hotel, on June 4, 2011.
© Getty Images
23 / 30 Fotos
Adili Wuxor
- Dubbed the "Prince of Tightrope Walking" by national and international media, Chinese highwire daredevil Adili Wuxor is pictured in 2016 walking a 5,905-ft-long (1,800 m) tightrope between Helan Mountain and Niushou Mountain along the Yellow River in Wuzhong city.
© Getty Images
24 / 30 Fotos
Eskil Rønningsbakken
- Norwegian performer of balancing acts Eskil Rønningsbakken is pictured standing on an ice cube set across a tightrope 900 ft (274 m) above a glacier-fissure in Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjella National Park on March 29, 2007. He undertook the treacherous stunt to demonstrate how dangerous global warming can be.
© Getty Images
25 / 30 Fotos
Kane Petersen
- On September 16, 2015, highwire artist Kane Petersen successfully walked a tightrope 984 ft (300 m) above the ground at Eureka Skydeck in Melbourne, Australia. The walk was the highest ever attempted in the Southern Hemisphere.
© Getty Images
26 / 30 Fotos
Jay Cochrane (1944-2013)
- Retired Canadian tightrope walker Jay Cochrane, known as the "Prince of the Air," set numerous records throughout his career, including "The Great China Skywalk," where he walked from one cliff wall to the opposite side above the Yangtze River. His final walk was an 11.81-mi (19.01 km) cumulative distance skywalk from the Skylon Tower (pictured) to the pinnacle of the Hilton Fallsview Hotel in Niagara Falls on July 24, 2005.
© Getty Images
27 / 30 Fotos
Highliners
- Today's generation of tightrope walkers are more often referred to as highliners, adventurers like Nathan Paulin, whose 7,349-ft-long (2,240 m) highline crossing at Mont Saint Michel, France, in May 2022 set a new world record.
© Getty Images
28 / 30 Fotos
From tightrope to slackline
- In fact, in many instances, the tightrope has become the slackline as a new breed of extreme sports enthusiasts take to the skies, people like Swiss aerialists Samuel Volery, seen here walking a very thin line during the Highline Extreme event in Moléson peak, western Switzerland, on September 26, 2015. Sources: (Smithsonian Magazine) (The New Yorker)
© Getty Images
29 / 30 Fotos
© Getty Images
0 / 30 Fotos
Origins
- The Greeks and the Romans were among the first to take to a tightrope. Ancient frescoes unearthed at Pompeii depict scenes where dark-skinned, blonde-haired dancers are seen walking a tightrope and using a thyrsus, the staff sacred to Bacchus, the god of wine-making, as a balancing tool.
© Getty Images
1 / 30 Fotos
Street performers
- History records these acrobats performing high above the streets of Rome and even in the Coliseum. The Romans called these artists funambula, and today funambulist is the technical term for wire walkers, tightrope walkers, and slackliners.
© Getty Images
2 / 30 Fotos
Highwire act
- These highwire acts were also played out by some tightrope walkers while clutching a kithara, a seven-stringed musical instrument also used by the ancient Greeks.
© Getty Images
3 / 30 Fotos
Jultagi
- Jultagi, the traditional Korean performance of tightrope-walking, likely originated in the Silla era, a Korean kingdom that existed between 57 BCE–935 CE. This highly skilled discipline still exists to this day.
© Shutterstock
4 / 30 Fotos
Chinese acrobats
- In fact, in the eyes of chroniclers, the acrobats of the Far East were the best rope dancers in the world. Chinese variety art in particular showcased examples of extraordinary skill on the highwire.
© Getty Images
5 / 30 Fotos
Medieval tightrope dancing
- Tightrope walking as a performance art became popular in Europe during the 13th century. And it was during the medieval period that highwire acts generally became more elaborate.
© Getty Images
6 / 30 Fotos
The rope tightens across Europe
- It was not uncommon to see female acrobats take a turn on the wire. In fact, women were valued members of traveling circus troupes, their lighter weight proving a distinct advantage when traversing a rope.
© Getty Images
7 / 30 Fotos
Fairground attraction
- In England, traveling fairs often included performers walking a tightrope. In this 1733 illustration of Southwark Fair in London, a tightrope walker is seen interrupting his routine with a mid-wire flip.
© Getty Images
8 / 30 Fotos
Pierre Forioso
- Tightrope superstars emerged in Paris after the Revolution. Among the most celebrated was Pierre Forioso. In 1807, he walked on a rope from the Pont de la Concorde to the Pont des Tuileries to celebrate Napoleon's birthday. He's pictured here in this 1817 engraving with his troupe of rope dancers.
© Getty Images
9 / 30 Fotos
Marietta Ravel and Madame Saqui
- Marietta Ravel, a guitar-playing tightrope artist from the celebrated Ravel family of pantomimists, and Madame Saqui (Marguerite-Antoinette Lalanne) were two of the most renowned female rope walkers performing in 19th-century France.
© Getty Images
10 / 30 Fotos
Charles Blondin (1824–1897)
- But the person who took tightrope walking to a high art was Jean François Gravelet, better known as Charles Blondin.
© Getty Images
11 / 30 Fotos
The daredevil of Niagara Falls
- Having wowed audiences in his native France and Europe with his highwire prowess, Blondin stunned America in 1859 by walking over Niagara Falls. It was an unbelievable feat of balance and daring, and made Blondin an instant celebrity.
© Getty Images
12 / 30 Fotos
Repeat performances
- Enjoying his newfound fame, Blondin repeated the walk on several other occasions, often with different theatrical variations: blindfolded, pushing a wheelbarrow, and even carrying a man (his manager, a very anxious Harry Colcord) on his back. And all this without the use of a safety harness!
© Getty Images
13 / 30 Fotos
Maria Spelterini (1853–1912)
- On July 8, 1876, Italian tightrope walker Maria Spelterini made her own crossing of Niagara Gorge. She crossed three more times, wearing peach baskets strapped to her feet (pictured) in one instance, then walking blindfolded, and finally with her ankles and wrists manacled.
© Getty Images
14 / 30 Fotos
Stephen Peer (1840-1887)
- Not everyone was as sure-footed as Charles Blondin or Maria Spelterini. On June 25, 1887, Canadian funambulist Stephen Peer fell to his death while attempting to cross Niagara Falls despite having successfully completed the feat on several previous occasions.
© Getty Images
15 / 30 Fotos
Henri L'Estrange (c. 1842–1894)
- On the other side of the world, an Australian funambulist by the very French-sounding name of Henri L'Estrange became the first person to walk across part of Sydney Harbor.
© Public Domain
16 / 30 Fotos
Con Colleano (1899–1973)
- Another Australian, Con Colleano (born Cornelius Sullivan) was the first to successfully execute a forward somersault on a tightrope, in 1919. This daring achievement earned him the sobriquet "The Wizard of the Wire."
© Getty Images
17 / 30 Fotos
Bird Millman (1890–1940)
- American highwire performer Bird Millman O'Day was one of the most celebrated tightrope walkers of her generation. A member of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Millman performed throughout the United States as well as in Europe. Image: Popular Mechanics, 1917
© Public Domain
18 / 30 Fotos
A marriage made in heaven
- Throughout the middle half of the 20th century, the tightrope spectacle was largely confined to circus acts and publicity stunts like this one, when on March 22, 1959, two aerialists, Roland Schmidt and Francine Pary, got married 65 ft (20 m) above ground on a wire set between the two towers of La Rochelle Harbor in France.
© Getty Images
19 / 30 Fotos
Philippe Petit
- Then suddenly, the tightrope made international headlines. French highwire artist Philippe Petit first gained international fame for his unauthorized tightrope walk between the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971.
© Getty Images
20 / 30 Fotos
Philippe Petit
- But it was his astonishing walk between the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in 1974 that garnered him superstardom. A documentary, 'Man on Wire' (2008), chronicles the event, while a 2015 movie, 'The Walk,' dramatizes the extraordinary episode. Petit is pictured at Ground Zero on October 17, 2001, the site where the Twin Towers once stood and where he performed his breathtaking stunt.
© Getty Images
21 / 30 Fotos
Karl Wallenda (1905–1978)
- German-American highwire artist Karl Wallenda was the founder of renowned daredevil circus troupe The Flying Wallendas, and is perhaps the most iconic tightrope walker. He performed several dangerous skywalks, often without a safety device. In 1978, he attempted a walk between the two towers of the 10-story Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Half way across he lost his balance and fell to his death. He was 73 years old. Wallenda is pictured in 1976 performing near Tower Bridge in London.
© Getty Images
22 / 30 Fotos
Nik Wallenda
- Nik Wallenda, great-grandson of Karl, upholds the family tradition. Among his many accomplishments is his astonishing 2014 walk from the west tower to the east tower of Marina City in Chicago, which he undertook blindfolded. Poignantly, he had earlier completed Karl Wallenda's walk between the two towers of the Condado Plaza Hotel, on June 4, 2011.
© Getty Images
23 / 30 Fotos
Adili Wuxor
- Dubbed the "Prince of Tightrope Walking" by national and international media, Chinese highwire daredevil Adili Wuxor is pictured in 2016 walking a 5,905-ft-long (1,800 m) tightrope between Helan Mountain and Niushou Mountain along the Yellow River in Wuzhong city.
© Getty Images
24 / 30 Fotos
Eskil Rønningsbakken
- Norwegian performer of balancing acts Eskil Rønningsbakken is pictured standing on an ice cube set across a tightrope 900 ft (274 m) above a glacier-fissure in Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjella National Park on March 29, 2007. He undertook the treacherous stunt to demonstrate how dangerous global warming can be.
© Getty Images
25 / 30 Fotos
Kane Petersen
- On September 16, 2015, highwire artist Kane Petersen successfully walked a tightrope 984 ft (300 m) above the ground at Eureka Skydeck in Melbourne, Australia. The walk was the highest ever attempted in the Southern Hemisphere.
© Getty Images
26 / 30 Fotos
Jay Cochrane (1944-2013)
- Retired Canadian tightrope walker Jay Cochrane, known as the "Prince of the Air," set numerous records throughout his career, including "The Great China Skywalk," where he walked from one cliff wall to the opposite side above the Yangtze River. His final walk was an 11.81-mi (19.01 km) cumulative distance skywalk from the Skylon Tower (pictured) to the pinnacle of the Hilton Fallsview Hotel in Niagara Falls on July 24, 2005.
© Getty Images
27 / 30 Fotos
Highliners
- Today's generation of tightrope walkers are more often referred to as highliners, adventurers like Nathan Paulin, whose 7,349-ft-long (2,240 m) highline crossing at Mont Saint Michel, France, in May 2022 set a new world record.
© Getty Images
28 / 30 Fotos
From tightrope to slackline
- In fact, in many instances, the tightrope has become the slackline as a new breed of extreme sports enthusiasts take to the skies, people like Swiss aerialists Samuel Volery, seen here walking a very thin line during the Highline Extreme event in Moléson peak, western Switzerland, on September 26, 2015. Sources: (Smithsonian Magazine) (The New Yorker)
© Getty Images
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The highflying art of the tightrope walker
The supreme balancing act between life and death
© Getty Images
Metaphorically speaking, if you walk a tightrope you have to deal with a difficult situation, especially one involving making a decision between two opposing plans of action. But how hard do you think it is to walk a real tightrope? Well to do so requires a tremendous amount of skill, and an awful lot of courage. In fact, maintaining balance while walking along a tensioned wire between two points is a supreme test of strength, concentration, and dexterity. No wonder that only a few select men and women have made a successful career out of performing as a tightrope walker. But how did this extraordinary discipline evolve, and who are those that turned it into a high art form?
Click through and walk the line finding out!
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