Popular tightrope walker and Guinness World Records holder Nathan Paulin carries out a 300-metre walk across La Alameda, the main avenue in Chile’s capital to mark the opening of a theatre festival on Wednesday.
This was made known in a video shared by AFP on its X handle (Formerly Twitter) on Thursday.
The post read, “Nathan Paulin carries out a 300-meter walk across “La Alameda”, the main avenue in Chile’s capital, to mark the opening of a theatre festival.”
Paulin is a highliner, a modern tightrope walker, born in 1994 and living in the village of Le Reposoir in the French Alps
In 2021, Paulin walked across a 600-metre-long 1968-foot rope suspended 70 metres, 230 feet above the ground from the first floor of Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower.
Paulin holds dozens of World Records, his longest crossing was a 2240m long highline on the Mont Saint-Michel in May 2022.
Credit: X | AFP
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