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Daredevil Nik Wallenda set two world records with back-to-back walks on a tightrope between Chicago skyscrapers without a safety net or a harness, performing one of them blindfolded, as a crowd gasped and cheered.
Wallenda, 35, already the first person to cross the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls on a high wire, set records for the steepest tightrope incline and highest blindfolded walk as he stepped gingerly across Chicago in mid-air on Sunday.
Watch: US daredevil completes Chicago skyscraper tightrope walk

"I feel incredible," Wallenda said afterwards.
He said strong winds and the steeper-than-expected angle of the first high wire caused him to hurry his performance. Wallenda had practised a 15 degree angle but said the wire was 19 degrees.
"That cable looked like it was going straight up," he said.
Thousands of cheering fans packed the streets around the city's Marina City towers to watch the heir to the Flying Wallendas' family business.
It took Wallenda six-and-a-half minutes to walk the 138-metre stretch from the Marina City west tower to the top of a building on the other side of the river.
"I love Chicago, and Chicago definitely loves me," he said as he walked that wire, with the crowd below him screaming in support. "What an amazing roar!"
The next stage of Wallenda's high-wire event he undertook blindfolded. That was a 28-metre walk between the two Marina City towers. He made the stretch in little more than a minute.

The Discovery Channel used a 10-second delay for the broadcast, which would have allowed producers to cut away if anything went wrong. Journalists covering the event signed waivers relinquishing their right to claim emotional distress if they witnessed a catastrophe.
Two of his previous televised tightrope walks, over Niagara Falls in 2012 and across the Little Colorado River Gorge last year, drew about 13 million viewers each.
"It was amazing. I saw it with my own eyes," spectator Cynthia Garner said afterwards. "I was afraid when he first started, but once I saw that he didn't hesitate and just walked, I wasn't scared for him no more."
A year before Wallenda was born, his great-grandfather Karl Wallenda fell to his death during a tightrope stunt in Puerto Rico. He was 73.
Wallenda has said he next wants to re-create a 365-metre high-wire walk made famous by his great-grandfather. The stunt in Georgia included two headstands on the high wire.
"I've trained a bit to do a headstand on the wire, but I've never done it publicly because I've always said if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it on that walk with him," Wallenda said, explaining that he wants to use vintage film of Karl Wallenda's walk to create the illusion of the two of them sharing the high wire.
"My dream is to actually walk the wire with my great-grandfather," he said.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse


Daredevil Nik Wallenda sets records in amazing Chicago high-wire walks

Wallenda makes the second Chicago walk blindfolded. Photo: AP

Nik Wallenda walks a tightrope across the Chicago River on Sunday. He set two records and had onlookers amazed in doing it. Photo: MTC

Nik Wallenda walks a tightrope across the Chicago River on Sunday. He set two records and had onlookers amazed in doing it. Photo: Reuters

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Walks between two city towers sets more records for Nik Wallenda


Daredevil Nik Wallenda set two world records with back-to-back walks on a tightrope between Chicago skyscrapers without a safety net or a harness, performing one of them blindfolded.


Daredevil Nik Wallenda sets records in amazing Chicago high-wire walks

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Walks between two city towers sets more records for Nik Wallenda