From the archives: Philippe Petit’s Twin Towers walk

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  • Опубліковано 21 жов 2024

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  • @phyllisroyce3137
    @phyllisroyce3137 2 місяці тому +73

    I saw this live!! Walked out of the subway and looked up!!

  • @robynmasters335
    @robynmasters335 2 місяці тому +30

    That Twin Tower walk was talked about and re-broadcast for years after, long before internet existed. I was 10 years old but I only vaguely remember the news broadcast. I was Twenty-One when he did the Eiffel tower walk. I remember watching that one live. A truly amazing performance.

  • @Dagm1111
    @Dagm1111 2 місяці тому +14

    Thank you Philippe!! We will always love you dear brother. Those towers were put there just for you to write your poetry in the sky. Happy 50th anniversary! ❤❤❤

  • @OconByrd519
    @OconByrd519 2 місяці тому +8

    Man on Wire! Fantastic documentary!

  • @haydenwayne3710
    @haydenwayne3710 Місяць тому +2

    Philippe had come to a private presentation of my circus back in 1977. He liked it very much and confessed how much he wished he had his own circus. He was very charming.

  • @BeTheLight624
    @BeTheLight624 2 місяці тому +3

    Wonderful interview…well done! Thank you
    I thought it was remarkable he made it across alive one time.
    When he said he crossed it 8 times that day was inconceivable to me.

  • @jenhasken
    @jenhasken 2 місяці тому +11

    This is just impossible to comprehend that he somehow overcame every natural human instinct of survival to do this, AND enjoyed himself! Frankly it puts every other stunt ever attempted to shame.

  • @deborahkizer4664
    @deborahkizer4664 2 місяці тому +8

    Fabulous sir I watched you. I lived in Philadelphia.

  • @ta9143
    @ta9143 2 місяці тому +10

    Inspiration for all of us mere humans - ✨❤️ ✨

  • @girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288
    @girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 2 місяці тому +2

    'They are in my heart, of course."

  • @deborahkizer4664
    @deborahkizer4664 2 місяці тому +15

    Those police officers were going crazy. 😅

  • @deborahkizer4664
    @deborahkizer4664 2 місяці тому +11

    I remember hearing about this this was amazing oh my goodness I read the story. 🙏🕊️✌️🙌👍💪🇺🇸💛

  • @joeldiaz5857
    @joeldiaz5857 2 місяці тому +4

    He's got diamond ballz. I would pass out just looking at the edge.

  • @Twintowers1973
    @Twintowers1973 Місяць тому +1

    Im surprised they remembered this after a few years cuz it was quiet for a while

  • @lorig7077
    @lorig7077 2 місяці тому +6

    It's crazy what some peoples brains are capable of doing

    • @joeldiaz5857
      @joeldiaz5857 2 місяці тому

      It's all in the mind-----

    • @lorig7077
      @lorig7077 2 місяці тому +2

      @@joeldiaz5857 My mind couldn't do it. Too stupid.

  • @dirtfarmer3891
    @dirtfarmer3891 2 місяці тому +7

    As a nephew of the late tight-wire walker Volney Lafayette “Bunny” Dryden, I have to wonder if Philippe knew about “Bunny” and his unauthorized walk across the towers of: “Skyride” at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair?

    • @jimmypage1517
      @jimmypage1517 2 місяці тому +2

      He probably did. Small community.

  • @Jean_Michel_Peinture
    @Jean_Michel_Peinture 10 днів тому

    inspiring

  • @stephanierobertson8846
    @stephanierobertson8846 2 місяці тому +12

    We had Evel knievel, France had Phil Petit.

    • @robynmasters335
      @robynmasters335 2 місяці тому +2

      True, but Phil Petit didn't break as many bones as Evil Knievel.

    • @fmradio42
      @fmradio42 2 місяці тому

      @@robynmasters335 On his Harley-Davidson XR750, Knievel only had 3-4 inches of suspension travel to play with, front and rear. He might as well have had none.

  • @PrettyboyAshtun
    @PrettyboyAshtun 25 днів тому

    this is history

  • @chrisfinch8637
    @chrisfinch8637 2 місяці тому +12

    This guy had a lot of guts, almost to how Nik Wallenda crossed over a volcano, at one point.

    • @jeshkam
      @jeshkam 2 місяці тому +2

      Wallenda had a safety rope.

  • @vivianjones9749
    @vivianjones9749 2 місяці тому +1

    The next year I saw him walk across the wire in the SuperBowl in New Orleans

  • @fredgarvin5381
    @fredgarvin5381 2 місяці тому +4

    Life is the wire, the rest is just waiting around. Karl Wallenda.

  • @nikitakamentsev2825
    @nikitakamentsev2825 28 днів тому +1

    Even with a TON of practice, it was VERY hard to walk between the twin towers unharmed on a wire.

  • @igorschmidlapp6987
    @igorschmidlapp6987 2 місяці тому +6

    The documentary about the walk was way more interesting than the crummy movie...

  • @maryhurst4663
    @maryhurst4663 2 місяці тому

    I watched it, holding my breath, and hoping a strong gust of wind wouldn’t come along and cause hm to loose his balance.

  • @blairt3973
    @blairt3973 2 місяці тому +1

    Gives me the willies.

  • @لبوةالشرق
    @لبوةالشرق 23 дні тому

    👋

  • @frankm7707
    @frankm7707 2 місяці тому

    Check out the 2015 movie ‘The Walk’

  • @jenhasken
    @jenhasken 2 місяці тому

    It looks like it was raining!!!😮😮😮

  • @deborahkizer4664
    @deborahkizer4664 2 місяці тому +5

    🙏✌️🙌👍💪💛😍

  • @chavez_finol
    @chavez_finol 2 місяці тому

    🏵

  • @O-DogKubrick
    @O-DogKubrick 2 місяці тому +2

    I do feel sorry for him, on what happened to the twin towers. Of the World Trade Center. 9/11.

  • @anitataraki5512
    @anitataraki5512 2 місяці тому

    How do you think this trapeze artist approaches life differently than most people? Shouldn't he be institutionalized?

    • @maferarteaga166
      @maferarteaga166 22 дні тому

      Everybody thinks different about life and no, he looks very normal it’s only he enjoys what he does 😅

  • @HabilUddine-u4i
    @HabilUddine-u4i Місяць тому

    White Kevin Wilson Anna Clark Jason

  • @ObeseCaligula
    @ObeseCaligula 2 місяці тому +2

    Wee wee 🦨

  • @zoeslovely7096
    @zoeslovely7096 2 місяці тому

    Who thought it was a good idea to use emotionally immature people to interview about mental health?!?!?!?!

  • @leeroybrown-i3c
    @leeroybrown-i3c 2 місяці тому +1

    I want to know how did they string the cable?

    • @girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288
      @girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 2 місяці тому

      I think they connected one side, then used a bow and arrow to send the other end across, so that it could be attached as well. They used those fake IDs to access the unfinished roof, trying to look like a construction crew. I believe NYC had already started to slide into bankruptcy, so maybe the site didn't have enough security? I was amazed to hear that he crossed back and forth several times. Yikes!

    • @dawnkindnesscountsmost5991
      @dawnkindnesscountsmost5991 28 днів тому +2

      He used a bow and arrow to shoot the wire across the divide, from one tower to the other.

    • @leeroybrown-i3c
      @leeroybrown-i3c 28 днів тому

      @@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991 thanks.

  • @LOFIRULESCOM
    @LOFIRULESCOM 2 місяці тому

    Softball lame questions for Markle and Harry... come on guys, do better.