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Wallenda exuberant after wire walk across Falls

By Carolyn Thompson
Published June 16, 2012 7:17am ET
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Wallenda exuberant after wire walk across Falls
Nik Wallenda walks across Niagara Falls on a tightrope as seen from Niagara Falls, N.Y., Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda has finished his attempt to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls. The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. (AP Photo/James P. McCoy) | James P. McCoy

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) — There was “wind coming from every which way,” mist so powerful it clouded his vision and an unfamiliar wire beneath him. But Nik Wallenda didn’t let that stop him from becoming the first person to walk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls.

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