Fifty years ago, on August 7, 1974, the French highwire artist walked a VERY high wire illicitly strung between the Twin Towers of New York City's World Trade Center. His passion for wire-walking, he says, has never changed.
On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, Philippe Petit will walk a highwire across the nave of St. John the Divine in New York City, the world's largest cathedral. 'My love for magnificent places and my love for walking on the tightrope and sharing with an audience my passion has not changed,' he said.He's walked this space many times before.
Asked if he liked all the trickery involved, Petit said, 'Oh, I love it!' Recently he overlooked the site of the World Trade Center from 80 stories up. 'It's interesting to know that at the Twin Towers, I was actually 30 stories higher,' he recalled. 'I stop in the middle of one of my walk, and I sit on the cable. I was able to look and to marvel at what I was looking at, and to think nobody in the world had ever walked so high, and nobody had seen what I am seeing.
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