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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Nik Wallenda's High Wire Walk Across the Grand Canyon [Watch (HLS stream): Nik Wallenda's High Wire Walk Across the Grand Canyon](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7mBVk1xC.m3u8) (2:05)  _Published 2013-06-24. High wire walker Nikolas Wallenda crosses the Grand Canyon on a 2 inch wire with no tether._ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:37 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Watch Grand Canyon Lightning](/video/TFadOoNc/) ### Watch Grand Canyon Lightning [The Ultras: Nik Wallenda](/video/wD453kIY/) ### The Ultras: Nik Wallenda [Tightrope Walker Takes on Grand Canyon](/video/jhkOaJBs/) ### Tightrope Walker Takes on Grand Canyon --- ## Transcript Shoes feel slippery theres dust on this cable. It didn't start well. Just need to relax more. It's kinda hard to relax when your 1500 feet above a canyon. 22 minutes and 54 seconds of death defying vertigo inducing thrill. Well that's a view there buddy. A two inch thick cable stretching a quarter mile across the little colorado river. I'm not liking it. Yeah. The most hair raising part of the Discovery channel sponsored feat. Lord help this cable to calm down. When the seventh generation daredevils balance poll began swinging. [ SOUND ] Teetering higher and higher. Winds are way worse then i expected. Was he losing control. You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire. Twice he stopped kneeling to regain his composure and steady the wire quivering under his feet. Whoa that's a long way down. Over a hellhole bend and without a tether or a safety harvest, the 34 year old thrill seeker sounding more like a preacher. Thank you Lord. High wires and high tension, a Wallenda family trait, our own Kate Baldwin recently, had a lesson with it. You just make nervous into focus, is that how you? Yeah. I mean, once it's time to go, it's time to go. And after that first step, there's no turning back. No turning back, another family trait. Nick's great grandfather, Carl Wallenda put the flying Wallenda's together in 1922. In 1970 in Puerto Rico, he fell ten stories to his death. That was ten months before Nick was born. My great grandfather Carl Wallenda said, life is on the wire and everything else is just waiting. This is life. Life on a wire, cheating death. [ SOUND ] One more day. On a scale from one to ten what he did tonight was unbelievable, I mean, I'd give it a ten. [ SOUND ] For the finale, Nik Wallenda ran to the finish. 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