Blindfolded Chinese Acrobat Survives Falling Off Tightrope

Aisikaier, a sixth-generation tightrope walker, has made world headlines, but not for successfully traversing a 700 meter tightrope backwards while blindfolded.

Rather, he’s being talked about around the globe for the fact that he fell, and amazingly caught himself, but then fell again with just 130 feet to go and failed at a second self-rescue. Luckily, the acrobat survived the fall.

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