![]() At just past dawn on August 7, 1974, 24-year-old French aerialist, Philippe Petit, stepped out onto the wire with his twenty-eight foot balancing pole. How did they get the cable from the top of one building to the other? They tied it to an arrow and shot it across with a bow. ![]() With the help of friends, in the middle of the night, he sneaked to the roof and stretched a cable seven-eighths of an inch thick and 140 feet long between the tops of the just completed towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Now he began to plan how he could carry out a startling new feat. He had already walked a wire between the steeples of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. ![]() One thousand three hundred and forty feet.Ī young street performer who "loved to walk and dance on a rope he tied between two trees" looked at the Twin Towers and got an idea. "Once there were two towers side by side. ![]()
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