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A daredevil stuntman has scaled a 10,000ft mountain – by creeping up a two-inch thick cable car wire.
Freddy Nock took 90 minutes to edge to the top of the Zugspitze mountain in south Bavaria – without any safety equipment.
Nock, who began his highwire career at the age of 11, said of his 3,000ft long trek: ‘I don’t want to do it again, not without a balancing pole. It was exhausting.’
The Swiss-born tightrope artist now plans to submit his feat to the Guinness Book of Records as the 'longest and highest wire walk above sea level without a balancing pole.'
The stunt was part of a week of challenges Nock will undertake this week to raise money for Unicef.
He said: 'I will attempt seven records during this week. It has everything, incline, to walk down a cable car, walk across a lake that is more than three kilometers, which in the highest mountain area, in the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland, that is more than 3,800 meters high, higher than this one.'
'Can I get across that in the air? Or cycling with a bicycle across a tightrope over 130 metres at a height of 50 metres. Those are the things I want to do.'
In Febuary, Nock walked down the wire of a cable car line on Switzerland’s Mount Corvatsch - which is 9,908 feet above sea level.
He shuffled along the cable for some 5,249 feet, starting from the mountain station - at an altitude of 10,836 feet - to the middle station, which is 8,865 feet above sea level.
Nock, who used a balancing stick, successfully completed the walk on his second attempt, after bad weather forced him to stop earlier in the day.
He previously performed similar stunts in Germany, staging a climb over the slopes of the country's highest mountain, and walking 900-metres over Lake Zurich.
In August 2009 Nock climbed up the steep cable on the slopes of Germany's highest mountain for charity, scaling the 3,264-foot-long line with only a balancing pole and no nets or safety rope.
During that climb, which took him 50 minutes, Nock gained 1,141 feet in altitude and - in front of 1,800 spectators - finished his climb 9,655 feet above sea level.
He raised $19,000 for a German charity which runs rural developmental projects in Ethiopia.
In our...well, in my case...I don't think it's a case of balls, it's a case of ability. I just can't do...that so no, I don't have the balls to do something that would definitely kill me.
If I could do whatever sort of witchcraft balance that dude does, then I might consider it.
In our...well, in my case...I don't think it's a case of balls, it's a case of ability. I just can't do...that so no, I don't have the balls to do something that would definitely kill me.
If I could do whatever sort of witchcraft balance that dude does, then I might consider it.
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In our...well, in my case...I don't think it's a case of balls, it's a case of ability. I just can't do...that so no, I don't have the balls to do something that would definitely kill me.
If I could do whatever sort of witchcraft balance that dude does, then I might consider it.
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