Nik Wallenda

Nik Wallenda has made history by becoming the first person to walk on a high wire directly over an active volcano.

Siblings from a famed circus family - the Flying Wallendas - walked a wire strung 25 stories over New York's Times Square Sunday, in a hair-raising balancing act performed across five city blocks.

Nik Wallenda and his sister Lijana plan to walk 1,300 feet across New York's busy Times Square on Sunday in a live television event that has been six years in the making.

Daredevil Nik Wallenda wowed the world with back-to-back walks on a tightrope between Chicago skyscrapers without a safety net or a harness, performing one of them blindfolded, as a crowd gasped and cheered.

US daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first man to cross Grand Canyon on a tightrope on Sunday, organisers said.

He's at it again. The US tightrope artist who crossed Niagara Falls last year will try to do the same at the Grand Canyon -- but this time much further up and without a safety harness.

Daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls, taking steady, measured steps Friday night for 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of the roaring falls separating the U.S. and Canada. "I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now," an exuberant Wallenda told reporters after accomplishing what he said ...

Nik Wallenda has made history by becoming the first person to walk on a high wire directly over an active volcano.

Siblings from a famed circus family - the Flying Wallendas - walked a wire strung 25 stories over New York's Times Square Sunday, in a hair-raising balancing act performed across five city blocks.

Nik Wallenda and his sister Lijana plan to walk 1,300 feet across New York's busy Times Square on Sunday in a live television event that has been six years in the making.

Daredevil Nik Wallenda wowed the world with back-to-back walks on a tightrope between Chicago skyscrapers without a safety net or a harness, performing one of them blindfolded, as a crowd gasped and cheered.

US daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first man to cross Grand Canyon on a tightrope on Sunday, organisers said.

He's at it again. The US tightrope artist who crossed Niagara Falls last year will try to do the same at the Grand Canyon -- but this time much further up and without a safety harness.

Daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls, taking steady, measured steps Friday night for 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of the roaring falls separating the U.S. and Canada. "I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now," an exuberant Wallenda told reporters after accomplishing what he said ...