Overcoming what could have been a tragedy, the Wallenda family has proved to the world courage can overcome fear and any ...

Nik Wallenda and his sister, Lijana, set the world record on Saturday night for the highest and longest criss-cross tight ...

Lijana Wallenda will join, marking her first time on a wire since her accident. Legendary highwire acrobat Nik Wallenda announced on "Good Morning America" Thursday that he and his sister will embark ...

Philippe Petit will walk the Cathedral of St. John on 50th anniversary of WTC high-wire walk.Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Philippe Petit, the man who stunned the world by tightrope-walking ...

MASAYA, Nicaragua -- Facing intense heat, poisonous gases and molten lava, daredevil Nik Wallenda pulled off a history-making 1,800-foot highwire walk across an active volcano live on television ...

New York — Fifty years after his iconic high-wire walk between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, Philippe Petit recreated the death-defying stunt with a performance about 7 miles north ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty years after his iconic high-wire walk between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, Philippe Petit recreated the death-defying stunt with a performance about 7 miles ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Nearly 50 years after he infamously walked across the Twin Towers, French high-wire artist Philippe Petit thrilled a young audience with a private performance at the National ...

Though we're now seven years on from the release of dizzying documentary Man on Wire, which chronicled Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in 1974, Robert Zemeckis's Hollywood ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The countdown is on for Sunday's much anticipated high-wire walk over the Chicago River as Nik Wallenda is preparing for his latest stunt. "I live by three words - never give up. And ...