He hopes to make his next high-wire walk across the Little Colorado River Gorge in the Grand Canyon, which is 1,200 feet across and 1,600 feet deep.

The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center.

Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the twin towers is pivotal to all the lives in this deeply affecting New York novel.

On July 18, 1970, a 65-year-old Karl Wallenda performed a high-wire walk across the Tallulah Gorge.

This year, she performed a high-wire walk between the Battersea Power Station chimneys, a feat that raised more than £250,000 for Sport Relief.

He was once caught by a police officer on the roof, and his hopes to do the high-wire walk were dampened, but he eventually regained the confidence to proceed.

Instead, he transformed it into another high-wire walk, in the Park above Belvedere Lake (which has now become Turtle Pond).

Petit's high-wire walk is credited with bringing the then rather unpopular Twin Towers much needed attention and even affection.

This year, it was a high-wire walk between the Battersea Power Station chimneys, a feat that raised more than a quarter of a million pounds for Sport Relief.

Hers is a high-wire walk of sublime grace.