There was gasp of horror from the spectator as he fell off the tightrope.
Meet Dolly the high-wire hamster... who hauls herself back onto the tightrope when she takes a tumble
The Bush administration has been walking a diplomatic tightrope throughout the Turkish cross-border offensive, which began a week ago.
The artwork, in which participants are invited to negotiate see-saws, a tightrope and other obstacles, left 23 people needing first aid in just over week.
Philippe Petit, the French acrobat who in 1974 walked across a tightrope between the twin towers, wasn't on the payroll of the Port Authority, but in retrospect he probably should have been.
It is also walking a legal tightrope because many clips violate copyright.
Valenda was a famous American high-altitude tightrope performer, he was in a great performance, unfortunately slipped and died.
Acrobatic performance venues to the western hills, I saw a jovian tiger drill hoop, clever and lively monkey handstand, darling of a big black bear walking a tightrope.
Now let's take a look at the tightrope-walker.
Governments will thus walk a tightrope in 2011, trying to show enough budget discipline to reassure the markets without doing so much as to damage their recoveries.
China must walk a tightrope.
A little boy has carried out an impressive performance on a Chinese TV show walking a tightrope blindfolded at 30 feet high.
And when asked if she likes tightrope walking, she says, "yes, because I started from a very young age."
First, as the structure begins to sway, the heavy-tiled roof covering the extended eaves of each storey ACTS like the long pole with weights on the ends that a tightrope walker USES to steady himself.
One said to me, "Working with the Japanese islike balancing on a tightrope.