French daredevil Philippe Petit illegally stepped onto a wire strung between the World Trade Center's twin towers, balancing 110 stories in the air on Aug. 7, 1974. Look back at the jaw-dropping ...
On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, Philippe Petit will walk a highwire across the nave of St. John the Divine in New York City, the world's largest cathedral. "My love for magnificent places and ...
Right before going to sleep tonight, imagine that instead of lying in bed, you’re balanced on a thick cable over a 1,350-foot drop. Imagine that you’re looking up into the sky, when a bird comes ...
Philippe Petit crossing a cable across the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in 1974AP Museum of Modern Art opens next month with “The Walk,” filmmaker Robert Zemeckis’ 3-D job about Philippe Petit’s ...
On this day in 1974, French stuntman Philippe Petit, repeatedly walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Petit was 1,350 feet above ground. According to the ...
In the early morning light of August 7, 1974, an almost unbelievable thing happened in the skies above lower Manhattan. One hundred and ten stories above the streets far below, 24-year-old Frenchman ...
On this day - August 7,1974 - Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air. (Wikipedia) Click here to view the photos. If one ...
High-wire artist Philippe Petit tells the story of his 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers and explains his lifelong fascination with pushing himself to the limit. I was intensely focused on ...
Those idiots who climbed the New York Times building have nothing on Philippe Petit. On August 7, 1974, the French street performer stepped onto a high wire he and a handful of co-conspirators had ...
Speaking this week at a screening in New York of The Walk, which reenacts Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the film’s writer and director Robert ...
Called Towering!!, the event consists of 19 scenes developed by Petit about the stunt and includes performances by actors, dancers, and musicians. A film by James March, who directed Man on Wire, a ...
On this day - August 7,1974 - Philippe Petit performs a high wire act, 1,368 feet in the air, between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The separation agreement also bars him from taking a ...
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