Philippe Petit will walk the Cathedral of St. John on 50th anniversary of WTC high-wire walk.Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Philippe Petit, the man who stunned the world by tightrope-walking ...

Shortly after 7 a.m. on Aug. 7, 1974, French performance artist Philippe Petit stepped out from the ... and a drop of 1,360-feet and certain death below him should he make one wrong step.

The daredevil recreated the death-defying stunt that got him arrested in 1974. High-wire artist Philippe Petit marked the 50th anniversary of his iconic walk between the World Trade Center's twin ...

Philippe Petit recreated the death-defying stunt with a performance about 7 miles north of the trade center at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The artist, 74, sought to celebrate the ...

At 74, Philippe Petit once again defied the odds on Wednesday ... from Europe to handcuffs in a New York City jail and the death-defying balancing act in between. However, Petit told amNewYork ...

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 ...

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 ...