Wallenda, great-grandson of the great highwire artist Karl Wallenda, will perform the daredevil stunt before an audience of millions watching around the globe
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Highwire artist Nik Wallenda, 35, is set to tightrope BLINDFOLDED between two Chicago skyscrapers.
He will teeter on a wire without any safety rope 600ft up between two of the city's most iconic buildings.
Wallenda, great-grandson of the famous highwire artist Karl Wallenda, will perform the daredevil stunt before an audience of millions watching around the globe.
The tightrope walk will be shown live on the Discovery Channel to 220 countries simultaneously.
Wallenda is not new to performing death-defying acts.
Reuters
Brave: Wallenda walked without any harnesses or any safety precautions at Grand Canyon last yearLast year he became the first to traverse the Grand Canyon.
'The blindfold is a whole new dilemma. It is taking away the most important sense a wirewalker has,' he told the Telegraph.
Wallenda's grandfather Karl fell to his death while tightrope walking between two high rise buildings in Puerto Rico at the age of 73 in 1978.
His mother, Delilah performed a highwire stunt when she was six months pregnant with Nik.
'I'm very nervous about him doing the blindfold because that's not something that he's accustomed to. It's a new thing he's started doing,' Delilah said.
If Nik Wallenda completes today's challenge he will have bagged 10 World Records.
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