Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. High-wire artist Philippe Petit marked the 50th anniversary of his iconic walk between the World Trade Center's twin towers with a ...

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 ...

On August 7th, 1974—that's forty years ago today—a 24-year-old Frenchman named Philippe Petit snuck into the World Trade Center, made his way to the top, and walked across a wire cable about 140-feet ...

There’s a fine line between audacity and ambition. Philippe Petit walked that line and lived to tell the story. In 1974, the French tightrope artist, with the help of a motley crew of accomplices, ...

Philippe Petit, a 75-year-old French artist, is performing a high-wire walk in New York City. Petit is marking the 50th anniversary of his unapproved tightrope walk between the two towers of the World ...