To celebrate the announcement of the launch of Ripley's Believe it or Not!, the museum is bringing high wire walker Nik Wallenda to the Inner Harbor later today. Beginning promptly at 5:15 p.m., Wallenda will walk on a high wire from the new location of Ripley's Odditorium out over the water to a platform moored in the harbor. He will cover nearly 300 feet, all on a tightrope without a net or any safety device.
Wallenda is a seventh-generation member of the Wallenda family, who are famous for high wire acts. High great-grandfather Karl Wallenda wire-walked over the Baltimore harbor in 1973. After wire walking in Baltimore today, Wallenda will leave for Niagra Falls in Canada, where he will begin extensive training for a dangerous history-making walk across the falls in June. Wallenda set a Guinness World Record in 2008 for the longest distance and greatest height every traveled by a bicycle on a high wire when he walked 150 feet out on a high wire from the roof of Newark, New Jersey's Prudential Building, suspended 20 stories over the street.
Photo by Roller Coaster Photography, Flickr.
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