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Tightrope Walking Between Two Moving Volvo Trucks Stunt

Aug 172012

To demonstrate the precision and control of their new FH Series, Volvo Trucks commisioned this daredevil stunt with world record-holding highliner Faith Dickey.

The famous tightrope walker had to cross a wire from one moving truck to another, all before the trucks made it to an upcoming tunnel which would severe the rope.

The new video now stands with over 480,000 views, and is covered on TheDrum, HuffingtonPost, and GreatAds.

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Blindfolded Chinese Acrobat Survives Falling Off Tightrope

Jul 092012

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.

Read more on BBC, DigitalJournal, Gawker, and PeopleDaily.