Daredevil Nik Wallenda completed a historic high-wire walk

Completion reckless Nick Wallenda walk a tightrope historical over steel wire 2 inches (5 cm) over the Grand Canyon on Sunday and was greeted by cheers after creeps trick.

Wallenda, "King of the Line", which describes itself took 22 minutes and 54 seconds to travel 1,400 meters across the nozzles crimson tones with just a bar Little Colorado River far less than that. The event was broadcast live all over the world.

Made Wallenda, the first person to cross the valley, and walk without a leash or a safety net.

Wallenda prayers almost constantly heard while walking, muttering: "Thank you, Jesus." He kissed on the surface of the earth to get to the other side.

"It took every bit of data to continue to focus on all the time," said Wallenda. "It would be my arm hurt like you would not believe."

He stopped and bent twice, first because of the wind, and the second because the cable gathered at an alarming rate.

He spat on his hands and rubbed on the soles of your shoe to grip the cable and gathered dust.

Wallenda said it was a stressful walk. But he also said that the view from 1,500 feet above the meandering river, was "awesome."

"It was a dream come true," said crossing Wallenda. "This is what my family has done for 200 years, so it is part of my heritage."

A member of the seventh generation of "Wallendas Bird" family of acrobats, Wallenda also made history last year by becoming the only person to complete a tightrope walk on the edge of Niagara Falls. It uses the same cable on Sunday.

And, the first challenge of a 34-year-old dreamed on Sunday during a visit to the Grand Canyon with his parents when he was a teenager.

There was no information on the financial benefits of the maneuver Wallenda. It was listed by the Discovery Channel as one of the executive producers of the live broadcast. It was not possible to reach a spokesman for Discovery comment.

Viewers were watching live on 217 countries able to share the point of view of Wallenda cable during the journey through his cameras operated by the Authority. Wallenda was held on 43 pounds (20 kg), the balance beam.

Nick's great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, slipped and fell to his death from a tightrope in Puerto Rico in 1978.

In an interview on Sunday distance, rip Nick Wallenda describing how the thought of his grandfather.

"I knelt down and I remembered my grandfather and everything I do is in honor of him," said Wallenda. "It took my mind of all this movement undertow ... I was able to focus on it and regain my composure."

Wallenda said before crossing the biggest concern the wind was unexpected that are prone to slapping on the site in a remote section of the Guadalquivir basin of the Navajo nation.

Wallenda formed in their hometown of Sarasota, Florida as a tropical storm Andrea criticized the earth. Oarbuats also used to destroy with the side and currents of 55 miles per hour.

Wallenda talking about his Christian faith in his new book, "balance."

"That's really where I have my peace," he said. "I have confidence that if anything were to happen to me, I know where I'm going."

For a hat trick in the future, and said Wallenda dreams of walking through New York Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building.