Philippe Petit is a French, high wire artist and you can read more about him here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit
After seeing this, I'd really like to watch this film! I'm scared of heights myself, so there's no way that I would do it but here's a trailer for the 2015 film, The Walk.
https://youtu.be/4W6byFcD5uE
Here's the actor, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, being taught how to walk a tightrope by Philippe Petit:
https://youtu.be/sPmCkDz3U-0
Here's Joseph talking about working with Phillippe:
https://youtu.be/sZHTdcJ3C-s
Finally, here's a video from 1994 of Philippe Petit walking along a 24-millimetre thick wire between two church spires, 80 metres above the old part of the city. Not content with just a tightrope walk, he sat, wrote and took off his coat and hat on the 300 metre long, high wire between the Frankfurt Cathedral and St. Paul's Church:
https://youtu.be/fR4wU6eyEug
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit
After seeing this, I'd really like to watch this film! I'm scared of heights myself, so there's no way that I would do it but here's a trailer for the 2015 film, The Walk.
https://youtu.be/4W6byFcD5uE
Here's the actor, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, being taught how to walk a tightrope by Philippe Petit:
https://youtu.be/sPmCkDz3U-0
Here's Joseph talking about working with Phillippe:
https://youtu.be/sZHTdcJ3C-s
Finally, here's a video from 1994 of Philippe Petit walking along a 24-millimetre thick wire between two church spires, 80 metres above the old part of the city. Not content with just a tightrope walk, he sat, wrote and took off his coat and hat on the 300 metre long, high wire between the Frankfurt Cathedral and St. Paul's Church:
https://youtu.be/fR4wU6eyEug
