The Wallendas are committed to family, and they’re committed to faith in Jesus ... Their most dangerous high-wire act was a seven-person human pyramid. On June 30, 1962, the pyramid collapsed and two ...

who broke every bone in her face after the family fell during a performance of their signature human pyramid in 2017. The obvious question is: Why do the Wallendas continue to court danger and ...

Circus at one time was a thriving business employing the greatest of human skills for the ... The head of the family Karl Wallenda had pioneered an acrobatic act called the Seven-Person Chair Pyramid ...

It will include acrobats, aerial stunts, human pyramids, trick bicycling, juggling and the family's specialty, high-wire walking. The theme, he says, is "the impossible is possible." Wallenda's ...

The "Zirkus" -- "circus" in Wallenda's native German -- has no animal performers. It will include acrobats, aerial stunts, human pyramids, trick bicycling, juggling and the family's specialty ...

In the 1920s, Karl Wallenda – Nik’s great-grandfather – gained fame in the United States after he and other members of the family performed a high wire and human pyramid act without a safety ...

While most members of the Sarasota-based Wallendas were best known for walking the tightrope and building human pyramids ... “He was the only one in the family that had enough guts to ride ...

The Wallendas’ most famous act was the seven-person, three-layer chair pyramid. In 1962 ... long as some of the individual achievements of the family, but the careful coordination required as the ...

It’s a human thing: most of us like standing on solid ground. To feel the earth beneath our feet. Not so the Wallenda family ... of a seven-person pyramid. This involved family members walking ...

Carla Wallenda, the matriarch of the daredevil Wallenda family of high-wire walkers ... a spectacular new routine called the seven-person pyramid, in which four people walk on the wire; two ...

Carla Wallenda, who has died aged 85, was a member of “The Flying Wallendas”, the circus troupe best known for their “human pyramid”; it consisted of four acrobats yoked together with a ...