French rope walked Nathan Boleyn, who was in September 2021 She has already crossed the Seine from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and set a new world record on Tuesday. This time the daredevil walked on a tightrope of at least 2,200 meters, which ran between a crane and a monastery on the island of Normandy at Mont Saint-Michel.
Pauline, 28, started his bus in the late afternoon, walking barefoot for two hours on a tightrope no more than two centimeters wide, at an altitude of about 100 metres. Thus, the acrobat broke a new world record, according to his entourage. “Now I’m really cheerful. It was a very intense experience, within two hours I had a lot of emotions and I can still feel them,” Pauline told AFP when he arrived at the bell room of the monastery around 7:30 p.m.
The daredevil had to lower himself a few meters before the end for “safety reasons”, but continued his tightrope walk afterward. “He reached the finish line and the distance record was thus broken,” his spokeswoman Laura Zhang confirmed.
previous record
Pauline set his previous record in 2017. He then crossed 1,662 meters over the Cirque de Navacelles, a large valley in southern France. In September, pedestrians on the tightrope walked from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, on a 670-meter tightrope, across the Seine to the Théâtre National de Chaillot. He did so on the occasion of the French Open Monument Day.
Mont Saint-Michel, a 1,300-year-old Benedictine monastery, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a popular tourist attraction in northwestern France.
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