A Chinese tightrope-walker had a near-death experience when he fell off his wire 650 feet above a gorge. Luckily he only got minor injuries. Click below to watch the video.
A Chinese daredevil took death defying to the extreme when he slipped off of a highwire 650 feet above a gorge — and walked away with only minor injuries.
Aisikaier Wubulikasimu was walking backwards and blindfolded without a harness Sunday when he had about 131 feet left of a nearly 2,300-foot walk, BBC News reported.
At that point, after more than 50 minutes of walking and with just a pole helping him to keep balance, Aisikaier felt faint and was thrown off by the wind, according to China Central Television.
That’s when he fell.
Onlookers reportedly gasped. But because Aisikaier plunged closer to the end of the wire, the slip was not as steep — about 132 feet.
Dramatic video of his near-deadly drop shows him moments later, walking out of a brush-filled area in China’s Hunan province.
Had he finished the highwire act, he would have become the first person in the world to accomplish such a feat, China Central Television said.
Still, Aisikaier, a sixth-generation acrobat and tightrope walker, is no stranger to breaking records.
He’s in the Guinness World Records for fastest tightrope walk over 100 meters, which he set at 44.63 seconds in 2009.
It was unclear if he planned to attempt this latest stunt again.
