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OFFICIAL BLOG OF NIAGARA FALLS TOURISM |
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WALLENDA UPDATE
By George Bailey
2012-05-17 11:37:50
|  | Post a comment | It's now been announced that Nik Wallenda's walk over Niagara Falls will be telecast live on ABC beginning at 9pm, June 15th, but he won’t make the walk until 10pm.
Having been around this area for years, I suspect the Canadian Horseshow Falls will need the addition on more lights to illuminate the falls and Wallenda through the heavy mist found here. Many years ago we set up an additional battery of lights atop the Table Rock Restaurant (now called Elements on the Falls Restaurant-I still like the old name) for the filming of a movie. Without the additional light we couldn't see the falls through the mist.
Until the walk Wallenda is training outside the Seneca Niagara Casino in Niagara Falls, N.Y. daily from 10:30 am until noon and from 3:00 pm until 5pm. The public is invited to watch. There is no fee to watch the training or the actual watch the 45 minute walk over the falls.
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WALLENDA TO WALK FRIDAY JUNE 15
By George Bailey
2012-05-04 07:07:03
| | 4 comments Latest by Anonymous 05/18/12 14:55:53 EDT | It's official, tightrope walker Nik Wallenda will walk across Niagara Falls on Friday June 15th on a five-centimetre (2 inch) wire. The time of the walk has yet to be announced, but it is expected to be early evening.
At a media conference overlooking the Canadian Horseshoe Falls at Prospect Point in Niagara Falls N.Y. Wallenda said, "The walk should take 35-40 minutes, but if the wire feels solid and the weather is good, I might spend more time out there".
It has taken years of planning and negotiations to gain permission from officials on both sides of the border to perform this historic walk.
The last such walk took place on June 25, 1911 at 5:30 pm downriver from the falls between the Honeymoon Bridge and Whirlpool Bridge when Oscar Williams, with an American and Canadian flag wound around him, unsuccessfully attempted to cross from the U.S. side of the border to Canada. The cable had been strung too loosely and it sagged and Williams was unable to walk up the steep grade. For thirty-eight minutes he hung in the centre of the rope before he was able to lower himself by a rope to the Maid of the Mist waiting below. He was unhurt.
You can bet Niagara Falls will be seen live all over the world that day.
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