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Balance: A Story of Faith, Family, and Life on the Line

✍ Scribed by Wallenda, Nik

Publisher: FaithWords
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Weight: 6 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781455545506

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✦ Synopsis

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Nik Wallenda, ''King of the High Wire,'' doesn't know fear. As a seventh generation of the legendary Great Wallendas, he grew up performing, entertaining, and pushing the boundaries of gravity and balance.

When Nik was four years old, he watched a video from 1978 of his great grandfather, Karl Wallenda, walking between the towers of the Condado Plaza Hotel in Puerto Rico, stumbling, and falling to his death because of a faulty balance pole. When Nik heard his father quote his great-grandfather--''Life is on the wire, everything else is just waiting''--the words resonated deep within his soul and he vowed to be a hero like Karl Wallenda.

Balance is the theme of Nik's life: between his work and family, his faith in God and artistry, his body and soul. It resonates from him when performing and when no one is looking. When walking across Niagara Falls, he prayed aloud the entire time, and to keep his lust for glory and fame in check, Nik returned to the site of his...

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