- American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist, and author
Real name: | Nikolas Wallenda | Born: | 24 January 1979 Comment | How old is Nik Wallenda in 2024? / Age: | 45 years
| Where was Nik Wallenda born? | Sarasota, Florida, US | Nicknames: | Nik | Zodiac sign: | Aquarius |
Nik Wallenda Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| How much is Nik Wallenda worth? | $4,000,000
| Nationality: | American | Hair color: | Blonde | Eyes color: | Blue |
Who is Nik Wallenda? / Facts
- Famous for his high-wire performances without a safety net and for being the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls
- Record breaker - He holds nine Guinness World Records for various acrobatic feats
- He took part in many circus acts as a child, being a seventh-generation member of The Flying Wallendas family
- Debut - At age 13, he made his professional tightrope walking debut
- He chose high-wire walking as his career in 1998, after joining family members in a seven-person pyramid on the wire
- In 2001, Wallenda was part of the world's first eight-person high-wire pyramid
- From 2002 to 2005, he performed with his family at various venues, forming his own troupe in 2005
- During 2007 and 2008, he performed with Bello Nock in a double version of the Wheel of Steel that he helped invent
- In 2009, he set new personal bests for highest and longest tightrope walks, completing a total of 15 walks above 100 feet (30 m) in the air that year
- In 2008, Wallenda set Guinness World Records for longest and highest bicycle ride on a high-wire 250-foot-long (76 m) ride at 135 feet (41 m) above the ground in New Jersey
- He nearly doubled the height record in 2010 to 260 feet (79 m)
- On the same day in 2010, he upped his personal best by tightrope walking over 2,000 feet (610 m) in a single performance
- In 2011, Wallenda set a world record by performing on the Wheel of Death atop the 23 story Tropicana Casino and Resort
- Later that year, Wallenda and his mother tightrope walked between the two towers of Condado Plaza Hotel in Puerto Rico
- The feat was a re-creation of the one that had killed Karl Wallenda, Nik's great-grandfather and primary source of inspiration
- On June 10, 2011, Wallenda hung from a helicopter 250 feet (76 m) off the ground using only his teeth to hold on
- After a two-year legal battle involving both sides of the Canada–United States border to gain approval, Wallenda crossed Niagara Falls on June 15, 2012 on a live ABC special
- Family - He is married with three children
- Stats - 15k fans on Instagram as of June 2019
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Quotes
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I tell mom to 'watch it' in every show. When I look like I'm off-balance? Moving my bar like crazy? All to build drama. People understand that we're entertainers. That's where our skills come in, and believe it or not, it's the hard part of what we do.
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We take pride in being a zero-impact operation. We don't drill into any rock or pull up any grass. We'll use cranes, and we're trying to arrange the rigging so no cable will even touch water when we set up. The 'Maid of the Mist', I would hope, would continue to run. You'll never know we were there.
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