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RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2012 - Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, June 15, 2012.

NIK WALLENDA

Karl Wallenda's great-grandson, Nik Wallenda, is also a high wire artist, and has nine Guinness World Records under his belt for various acrobatic feats. He became the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over the Niagara Falls, crossing from the U.S. side of the Horseshoe Falls to the Canadian side — covering 1,800 feet (550 meters) in 25 minutes — on June 15, 2012 (pictured). The next year (June 23, 2013), he went on to become the first person to cross a Grand Canyon gorge on a wire.
FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2014 file photo, Nik Wallenda makes his tightrope walk uphill from the Marina City west tower across the Chicago River to the top of the Leo Burnett Building in Chicago. On Wednesday April 29, 2015, Wallenda will walk _ untethered _ atop the Orlando Eye, a 400-foot high Ferris wheel in Orlando, Fla., as it spins.

NIK WALLENDA

In 2011, Nik Wallenda completed the 100-feet-long (30 meters) high-wire crossing between the two towers of the 10-story Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, which Karl Wallenda had failed to achieve. Nik Wallenda also finished the highest incline tightrope walk with a 15-degree angle between two Chicago skyscrapers, while being partially blindfolded, on Nov. 2, 2014.
GRAND CANYON, UNITED STATES: Robbie Knievel of the US is airborne above the Grand Canyon, AZ, 20 May, 1999 during a successful 228 feet (some 68 meters) world record jump. Knievel crashed following his landing and sustained unknown injuries but talked to the crowd before being flown by helicopter to the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, NV.

ROBBIE KNIEVEL

Robbie jumped 228 feet (69 meters) across the Grand Canyon on May 20, 1999. He, however, lost control of  his bike while landing and suffered a broken leg due to the crash.

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