The Walk is the 2015 motion picture, and true story, about high-wire artist Philippe Petit. In 1974 he fulfilled his dream of walking between the World Trade Center towers, but in an early scene from ...

Claim to Eccentricity: Walking a high wire between the World Trade Center Towers. The scrappy young Frenchman Philippe Petit was at the dentist's office when he first read about the World Trade Center ...

Kurt Andersen and legendary high wire walker Philippe Petit meet up at Ground Zero. Petit tells Kurt about his amazing daring – and illegal— 1974 feat: bypassing World Trade Center security with his ...

Does the name Jean Francois Gravelet mean anything to you? How about his showbiz persona, Charles Blondin? He was a worldwide sensation, the most renowned funambulist (high-wire walker) of ...