3,000 Feet Above Rio, Tightropers Walk Without Fear

3,000 feet above Rio: In the air 3,000 feet above the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, four Americans effortlessly walked on a thin nylon line.
3,000 Feet Above Rio, Tightropers Walk Without Fear
Jack Phillips
3/26/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

Four daredevils just walked across a thin line 3,000 feet above Rio de Janeiro, it was reported.

ABC News reported that Americans Andy Lewis, Brian Mosbaugh, Hayley Ashburn, and Scott Rogers travel around the world to walk across thin lines sometimes thousands of feet above the ground.  

Video footage shows the four walking, flipping, sitting, and even resting across the tightrope.

“A lot of people keep telling me ‘Hey, come to Brazil, you’ll love it here,’ and so I finally was like, ‘OK, we’re going to Brazil,” Lewis told the broadcaster.

“It’s just about having fun. All of it, the reason why we do it, it’s just fun for us,” Lewis added. “It seems crazy from the outside, and maybe it is crazy to follow your dreams. But for us, highlining up there in the clouds, all the way above Rio, is just magical.”

And apparently, Mosbaugh, is so highly accustomed to walking across tightropes that he situated his entire body on the wire to rest, according to the Daily Mail.

Lewis also is a fan of “free-solo” tightrope walking, where no safety harness is used.

“On a scale of one to ten, highlining is actually pretty safe--but when you do it without a leash, or with only an ankle leash like Andy, the danger level can reach nine or higher,” Rogers told the Mail.

He added: “We’re very experienced so like to think the risk is fairly low but we all know the consequences are very high--instant death in the case of a fall freesoloing or with the ankle leash slipping off.”

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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