IT is roughly 201 years since the birth of Charles Blondin, the famous tightrope walker who is reputed to have walked on a tightrope between two skyscrapers, pushing a wheelbarrow. As he completed ...

French acrobat Charles Blondin was the first person to walk on a tightrope across Niagara Falls in 1859. He crossed the 270-foot-high Niagara Falls on a 3-inch hemp cord while blindfolded ...