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RIP Carla Wallenda

#1 Post by Vandal » Tue Mar 09, 2021 8:15 am

Carla Wallenda, Surefooted Mainstay of a High-Wire Act, Dies at 85

The last surviving child of the Flying Wallendas’ founder, she was with the troupe for seven decades, performing heart-stopping aerial stunts into her 80s.


Carla Wallenda, who spent seven decades with both her head and her feet in the clouds (or close to them) as a member of the Flying Wallendas aerial act, died on Saturday in Sarasota, Fla. The last surviving child of the family troupe’s founder, she was 85.

Her death was confirmed by her son, Rick Wallenda. No cause was given.

Ms. Wallenda made her high-wire debut when she was just six weeks old — when “my father rode the bicycle and my mother sat on his shoulders, holding me and introducing me to the public,” she recalled in a Sarasota television interview in 2017.

Fatal accidents took the lives of family members, including her husband, but Ms. Wallenda continued to soar to new acrobatic heights. Her signature was a heart-stopping headstand on a sway pole — a flexible steel shaft — from a perch of 100 feet (later scaled down to 65 feet as she grew older).

Though weakened by diabetes and a chronic inflammatory lung disease (she stopped smoking in 2013), she continued to perform until she was 82.


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