tightrope

Roll up, roll up! Clever squirrel walks a tightrope to get his paws on a peanut 

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Roll up, roll up! Clever squirrel walks a tightrope to get his paws on a peanut Rocky the squirrel was determined to claim the peanut dangling from a wire The squirrel tried reaching up and jumping across to the nut in the video Eventually he decided to walk the wire in the garden in New … Read more

The world’s greatest high-wire artiste reveals the secret to walking a tightrope at insane height 

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BOOK OF THE WEEK ON THE HIGH WIRE By Philippe Petit (Weidenfeld & Nicholson £9.99, 115pp)  When my son ran away to join the circus, I more or less ran away with him. I couldn’t be kept away from the Academy of Circus Arts, the apprentice arm of Zippos. Most weekends, I would cook a … Read more