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.

As we pass Mallory Dock, the wire walker and his cohort give us a satirical cheer; a few minutes later, the tall ship Wolf, also filled with tourists, fires a make-believe shot across our bow.

On the day before we pulled out for St. Louis, I asked Chips Baily and Sally O'Hara, the red-headed wire walker, if Mr. Legere and Mr. Indrasil knew each other.

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

He is a great-nephew of Australian Con Colleano, who was the first wire walker to do a forward somersault on the wire and also a great-nephew of actor Bonar Colleano.

His father, Eugenio - whose reputation as Europe's foremost exponent of trapeze head-standing won him a spot on the Ed Sullivan show in 1959 - is traveling with the show along with Mr. Larible's mother, Lucina, a former wire walker.

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.