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VIDEO: Daredevil Walks Tightrope Above Sarasota
Wednesday, January 30, 2013    
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Nik Wallenda did it without a safety harness.

Photo/Video: YouTube

 Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda pulled off another nail biting stunt, this time in Sarasota. 

He successfully walked 600 feet across a thin wire, 200 feet above a highway, without the use of a safety harness. 

Thousands watched on from the ground below, cheering on Wallenda, who comes from a daredevil circus family.  His great grandfather, Karl Wallenda, died at the age of 73 trying to walk between two buildings in Puerto Rico in 1978.