Tightrope walker casually scales Parisian hill more than 30m in the air
Parisian tightrope walker Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga has stunned crowds by scaling an iconic French more than 30m in the air without a safety harness.
Bongonga walked a line suspended by cranes at the bottom of the steep hill leading up to the Sacré Coeur basilica on Sunday.
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Most people struggle to take on the challenging slope on foot, yet she managed to tackle it on a thin wire.
As we read in a yarn from CBC News, she was some 35m in the air – more than 10 stories high.
Accompanied by a live orchestra, she walked the line with style, stopping at times to balance on one leg, do the splits and generally look fabulous while making everyone watching from below extremely nervous.
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The feat took less than 15 minutes to complete, but was the result of about a year’s preparation from Bongonga and her team.
According to an article from masthead Culture Box France, Bongonga has been tightrope walking since she was eight-years-old, when she joined a circus school near Caen.
The 34-year-old, who also has a degree in psychology, will soon be performing her stunts around the world, heading to Japan and Denmark.
