Tight Rope
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Tight Rope walking (or funambulism), is the well-known art of walking along a thin wire or rope. It has a long tradition in various countries and is commonly associated with the circus, music hall and vaudeville. It is also a venerable form of extreme adventurism, with walkers attempting epic walks across the Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, up the Eiffel Tower, etc.
An alternative version of it, called Slack Rope or Slack Wire walking, is one where the support is flexible or 'slack' and thus requires other skills. Often used by clowns and comedians as a circus or vaudeville act. It was particularly popular in the mid-1800s in South Africa. See for example Monsieur Dupree (1833),
