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Professional daredevil Nik Wallenda completed an unharnessed tightrope walk high above the beach in Atlantic City, N.J, on Aug. 9. Wallenda has become somewhat of a celebrity, since making an historic tightrope crossing over Niagara Falls this June.
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Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda pumps his fist into the air as he nears the end of his high wire walk over the California Avenue beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey August 9, 2012. Wallenda's 1500-foot (457.2-meter) walk was watched by thousands of visitors to the famed boardwalk. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire between boardwalk casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey August 9, 2012. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek
People line a walkway to the beach to photograph and watch tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walk the high wire over the California Avenue beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey August 9, 2012. Wallenda's 1500-foot (457.2-meter) walk was watched by thousands of visitors to the famed boardwalk. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek
High above the California Avenue beach, tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire in Atlantic City, New Jersey August 9, 2012. Wallenda's 1500-foot (457.2-meter) walk was watched by thousands of visitors to the famed boardwalk. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek
Beachgoers watch tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walk the high wire over the California Avenue beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey August 9, 2012. Wallenda's 1500-foot (457.2-meters) walk was watched by thousands of visitors to the famed boardwalk. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek
People line one of the walkways to the beach as they watch tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walk the high wire over the California Avenue beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey August 9, 2012. Wallenda's 1500-foot walk was watched by thousands of visitors to the famed boardwalk. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek
A crowd watches as daredevil Nik Wallenda walks a tightrope above the beach at Atlantic City on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. Officials say some 150,000 people witnessed the walk. (AP Photo/Geoff Mulvihill)
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda waves as he nears the end of his walk on the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, June 15, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Cassese
Nik Wallenda nears the middle of his tightrope walk over Niagara Falls as seen from Niagara Falls, Ontario, on Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda has finished his attempt to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls. The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Aaron Vincent Elkaim)
Nik Wallenda walks over Niagara Falls on a tightrope in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda has finished his attempt to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls. The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, June 15, 2012. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, June 15, 2012. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario June 15, 2012. Wallenda, a member of the famed \"Flying Wallendas\" family of aerialists, completed a historic tightrope crossing through the mist over Niagara Falls Gorge on Friday, stepping from a 2-inch wire onto safe ground in Canada to wild cheers from a crowd of thousands. REUTERS/Fred Thornhill (CANADA - Tags: SOCIETY)
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario June 15, 2012. Wallenda, a member of the famed "Flying Wallendas" family of aerialists, completed a historic tightrope crossing through the mist over Niagara Falls Gorge on Friday, stepping from a 2-inch wire onto safe ground in Canada to wild cheers from a crowd of thousands. REUTERS/Fred Thornhill
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, June 15, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Cassese
Nik Wallenda walks 1800 feet across the Niagara Falls Gorge on a tight rope. Julie Noce reports.
Nik Wallenda walks over Niagara Falls on a tightrope in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda has finished his attempt to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls. The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
Nik Wallenda walks a tightrope over Niagara Falls as seen from Niagara Falls, Ontario, on Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda has finished his attempt to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls. The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)
Nik Wallenda walks across Niagara Falls on a tightrope as seen from Niagara Falls, N.Y., Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda has finished his attempt to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls. The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert)
Nik Wallenda walks over Niagara Falls on a tightrope as seen from Niagara Falls, Ontario, on Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda has finished his attempt to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls. The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
The Maid of the Mist enters near the dangers zone before Nik Wallenda's attempt to walk a 1,800-foot (550-meter) long tightrope over the brink of the Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, Ont., on Friday, June 15, 2012. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario June 15, 2012. REUTERS/Fred Thornhill