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Erendira Wallenda triumphantly tethers over Niagara Falls.
Erendira Wallenda bests Niagara Falls.
Erendira Wallenda dangles over Niagara Falls. (Source: Gary Hodge)
(Source: Gary Hodge )
The aerialist wife of daredevil Nik Wallenda has successfully hung by her teeth from a helicopter over Niagara Falls.
Erendira Wallenda was tethered to a hoop suspended from a helicopter 300 feet above the water Thursday. After performing a few acrobatic maneuvers, she briefly hung twice by her teeth with the use of a tethered mouth guard in between hanging upside-down by her toes for a few seconds.
The Wallendas say the stunt broke a height record Nik Wallenda set in 2011 when he hung by his teeth 250 feet (76 meters) above Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri.
The 36-year-old mother of three spent about eight minutes of the 10-minute stunt hovering over the falls.
Thursday's performance came on the fifth anniversary of Nik Wallenda's televised high-wire walk over Niagara Falls.
It is being speculated that five years from now, the couple may return to the Niagara Falls area to mark the tenth anniversary of Nik's great cataract crossing or leave such daredevil actions to "a new generation".
Erendira Wallenda was tethered to a hoop suspended from a helicopter 300 feet above the water Thursday. After performing a few acrobatic maneuvers, she briefly hung twice by her teeth with the use of a tethered mouth guard in between hanging upside-down by her toes for a few seconds.
The Wallendas say the stunt broke a height record Nik Wallenda set in 2011 when he hung by his teeth 250 feet (76 meters) above Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri.
The 36-year-old mother of three spent about eight minutes of the 10-minute stunt hovering over the falls.
Thursday's performance came on the fifth anniversary of Nik Wallenda's televised high-wire walk over Niagara Falls.
It is being speculated that five years from now, the couple may return to the Niagara Falls area to mark the tenth anniversary of Nik's great cataract crossing or leave such daredevil actions to "a new generation".
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