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Bird's Nest to witness tightrope Guinness record

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-05-04 16:47

BEIJING - Chinese legend Adili Wuxor, known as the Prince of Tightrope Walking, started his two-month campaign to break Guinness World Record of steel wire walking and living on Monday at the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest.

Bird's Nest to witness tightrope Guinness record

Adili Wuxor walks on the steel wire in the Bird's Nest on May 3, 2010. [Xinhua]

In the coming 60 days, Adili, who has already held five Guinness World Records for various stunts, will stay on a steel wire which is 60-meter high and merely 3.3 centimeter in diameter, hung above the Bird's Nest.

In his personal world record challenge, Adili plans to walk five hours and approximately 20 kilometers everyday. He will also give boundless aerial tightrope performance such as dancing, sleeping, eyes-covered walking, running, headstand, and single leg standing when the wind scale is under 6.

Adili was born in a Uygur family with a 430-year-history in the acrobatics. In 2002, Adili completed a remarkable feat in suburb Beijing by staying on a wire for 25 days and tightrope walking for a total of 123 hours and 48 minutes, an accomplishment recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the greatest living-on-wire in history.

Tightrope walking is called "Dawazi" in the western China. Dawazi is a Uighur traditional sport with a history of nearly 2,000 years.