The Walk (aka To Reach the Clouds)

One late-summer day, a feat of unimaginable audacity was perpetrated on the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The year was 1974. A hundred thousand people gathered on the ground to watch in awe as twenty-four-year-old high wire artist Philippe Petit made eight crossings between the allbut-completed towers, a quarter mile above the earth, over the course of nearly an hour. Petit's achievement made headlines around the world.