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...last warning before Karl Wallenda fell to his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sit Down, Poppy, Sit Down! | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

When Karl Wallenda was a boy in Germany, the story goes, he answered an ad asking for someone who could do a handstand. The ad did not say just where the handstand was to be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sit Down, Poppy, Sit Down! | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...ladder to a platform 40 ft. in the air. "Just walk behind me," said Weitzman as he started out on the high wire, "and when I bend a little, you get up and do a handstand on my shoulders." Karl Wallenda looked down. "I can't," he said. "You do it," said Weitzman, "or I'll shake you off the wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sit Down, Poppy, Sit Down! | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...Karl Wallenda did a handstand on Weitzman's shoulders. So Karl Wallenda became a high-wire stunt man. Probably it was in his blood all along. His father was a catcher in a wandering troupe of aerialists; his mother performed with the troupe too. But when Wallenda first began performing his own high-wire act, he soon showed the daring that was to make him the greatest of his strange breed. He not only walked the wire but rode a bicycle on it- with his brother Herman on his shoulders. He invented an act that had never before been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sit Down, Poppy, Sit Down! | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...Karl Wallenda, on why he still walks the circus high wire at age 73: "I like to do things that other people cannot do. I can still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1978 | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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