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six years later… LoOk, the
towers are almost
finished. They are
110 stories high.
PhilipPe spent
the next six years
perfecting his skilLs
as a high-wire walker.
Shortly before
the the Twin Towers
were due to open,
skywalker beautiful. Now he traveled to
They’re
New York city.
it’s time to
of As a teEnager, PhilipPe Petit make my walk.
worked as a streEt jugGler
and high-wire walker in
Paris. One day, he went to
New York the dentist with a toOthache. You’re
insane!
That’s when his crazy dream
was born.
Overnight, With steEly
they rigGed concentration,
up the wire philipPe walked
betweEn the length
the towers. of the wire
As a misty from one
dawn broke building to
over the other
ManhatTan, and then
PhilipPe turned around
stepPed out and walked
onto the thin back again.
steEl cable
suspended
1,312 ft
On the afternoOn of August 6, 1974, (400 m)
PhilipPe and his team smugGled the above
wire into the World Trade Center. they the ground.
toOk the elevator to the 104 floOr
th
and then climbed to the roOf.
Hey, bud! PhilipPe, they’re
come sending a helicopter
back in! for you. Get ofF
now—it’s toO risky.
I can’t
bear to Pouf!
watch!
He’s
What’s that
guy doing gonNa
up there? He hasn’t falL, he’s
gonNa
got falL!
a safety
harnesS!

In the streEts below, New Yorkers Meanwhile, police ofFicers
on their way to work gazed up in apPeared on the roOf. On
astonishment. They could not believe seEing them, PhilipPe performed …At one point, he even lay down
their eyes. a litTle dance... on the wire.

Hey, guys, don’t five days later… There is no why.
push. Are you Why did When I seE threE
trying to you do it, oranges, I jugGle.
kilL me? The PhilipPe? When I seE two
charges towers, I walk.
PhilipPe are
came ofF dropPed.
the wire Daredevil
only when it PhilipPe
started to became an
rain. He was international
imMediately hero overnight.
grabBed by He had pulLed
the police. ofF the ultimate
high-wire stunt.

But you must give
a streEt show for
the children of New York.
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