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Wallenda's tightrope walk over Niagara Falls

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Last Updated: June 12, 2012

Nik Wallenda performs a walk on a tightrope in the rain during training for his walk over Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, N.Y., May 16, 2012. (David Duprey/AP)

On June 15, 2012, Nik Wallenda, the seventh generation of the legendary Flying Wallendas circus family, will try to walk on a tightrope over the turbulent waters of Niagara Falls.

If successful, he will be the first person to do so in more than a century. Here's what's planned for the high-wire act over one of Canada's iconic landmarks.



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Sources: NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Niagara Info, Walk the Falls, news wires
[Interactive by Ruby Buiza & Duk Han Lee/CBC]


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