Philippe Petit will walk the Cathedral of St. John on 50th anniversary of WTC high-wire walk.Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Philippe Petit, the man who stunned the world by tightrope-walking ...
On Thursday evening, we stood among a crowd of awed spectators with necks craned as world-famous high-wire walker Philippe Petit carefully traversed the nave of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS -- French high-wire artist Philippe Petit is gearing up for the 50th anniversary of his historic walk between the World Trade Center towers. It is still considered the artistic ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty years after his iconic high-wire walk between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, Philippe Petit recreated the death-defying stunt with a performance about 7 miles ...
It’s no small feat keeping hundreds of elementary school students still and silent for nearly ten minutes. That’s what high-wire artist Philippe Petit accomplished on Friday morning, as he crossed the ...
His stunning 1974 high-wire walk across New York City’s ill-fated Twin Towers was chronicled in the Oscar-winning documentary “Man on Wire” (2008), and again in the narrative flick “The Walk” (2015).