Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Philippe Petit is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walk between the Twin Towers of the World ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years after Philippe Petit walked high above New York City between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the French ...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit in The Walk, lying on a wire between the Twin Towers. Image via Sony Pictures For what has seemed like an eternity, the topic of the Twin Towers has been a grim ...

New York — Fifty years after his iconic high-wire walk between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, Philippe Petit recreated the death-defying stunt with a performance about 7 miles north ...

39 years ago today, on August 7, 1974, street performer Philippe Petit traversed a tightrope between the Twin Towers in what many later called the “artistic crime of the century.” With no safety ...

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It's one of the most stunning feats the world has ever seen! A daredevil walked a high wire between the iconic Twin Towers in 1974. Phillipe Petit was 1,350 feet above New York City. Fast-forward 50 ...

Philippe Petit honored the anniversary by getting back on the wire at New York's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. The man featured in one of the most stunning images as he walked on a high ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty years after his iconic high-wire walk between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, Philippe Petit recreated the death-defying stunt with a performance about 7 miles ...