Please don’t take this wrong, but according to the story I read Friday ABC refused to air this walk unless he was tethered. If that is the case, would it not take some of the air out of the walk? Where is the danger if he’s attached to the wire by tethers?
Well, he still has to walk a highwire across the top of Niagra Falls. To most of us, that's pretty impressive.
Of course, it doesn't measure up to what you can do after a few beers, but very few things do.
“Where is the danger if he’s attached to the wire by tethers?”
I joined the telecast 15 minutes into the walk and saw the tether in the first views. The tether did not make it any easier...how would you like to be dangling by that tether, upside down over the falls, with no means to effect your own escape? And it is not likely anyone would want to get close to you...the smell... )