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Daredevil Nik Wallenda's Wife To Dangle By Her Teeth Over Niagara Falls

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 17 May, 2017 12:31 PM
    NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — The trapeze-artist wife of daredevil Nik Wallenda is planning her own stunt high above Niagara Falls.
     
     
    Five years after Nik Wallenda walked over the falls on a high wire, aerialist Erendira Vasquez Wallenda plans to dangle by her teeth from a helicopter as it flies over Niagara Falls.
     
    The Niagara County legislature late Tuesday approved a resolution setting aside $35,000 for the act.
     
    It's planned for June 15, the fifth anniversary of Nik Wallenda's televised 550-metre tightrope walk from the New York side of the falls into Canada.
     
    Five members of the famed Wallenda circus troupe fell from a high-wire in Sarasota, Fla., in February while practising an eight-person pyramid.
     
    Nik Wallenda avoided falling by grabbing a wire. Everyone survived.

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