{"id":11265,"date":"2013-05-26T09:45:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T04:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=11265"},"modified":"2013-05-26T09:46:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T04:46:43","slug":"daredevil-teeters-along-highwire-185-metres-up-in-bid-to-set-new-world-record-despite-being-afraid-of-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=11265","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil teeters along highwire 185 metres up in bid to set new world record despite being afraid of heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-11267\" alt=\"m1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m12.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m12.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m12-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m12-417x300.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a>Teetering along a highwire suspended between two skyscrapers 185 metres up is really not a good the place to be afraid of heights.<\/p>\n<p>But Austrian daredevil Reinhard Kleindl, pictured here attempting to set a new world record for &#8216;urban highlining&#8217; above the German city of Frankfurt, admitted he suffers from just that.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kleindl, 32, used only his arms to balance as he walked twice along a 30-metre-long polyester rope anchored to the two wings of the city&#8217;s U-shaped skyscraper Tower 185 above hundreds of cheering supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Kleindl said he was trying to set a new record for walking the highest urban highline, but no one was immediately available from the World Slackline Federation to confirm if this was a new record.<br \/>\nAccording to Kleindl, the previous record was set by a group of French adrenaline junkies on a line about 120 metres above the ground, between the Les Mercuriales twin towers in Paris, two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike tightropes, slacklines are not held rigidly taut, making it harder to balance.<\/p>\n<p>Kleindl, who studied particle physics before becoming a professional slackliner, was due to repeat his walk three times during a two-day skyscraper-themed festival that started on Saturday.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teetering along a highwire suspended between two skyscrapers 185 metres up is really not a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}