From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philippe Petit (born 13 August 1949) is a French high-wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New ...

Robert Zemeckis’ “The Walk’’ reaches for the sky when aerialist Philippe Petit mounts a wire perilously stretched between the original World Trade Center towers, two-thirds of the way through this ...

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 roof of the World Trade Center’s South Tower and onto a one-inch thick cable, stretching 140 feet ...

“Friendship! And Equilibrium,” Philippe Petit says. He lifted a glass of Prosecco. “Friendship. And Equilibrium!” he repeats. The E-word hovers, as if capitalized. We are a small group on the porch of ...

There’s a battle behind the scenes of “The Walk” — about Philippe Petit’s midair balancing act between the Twin Towers — with one of the movie’s subjects saying Petit walked a tightrope to fame and ...

On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, Philippe Petit will walk a highwire across the nave of St. John the Divine in New York City, the world's largest cathedral. "My love for magnificent places and ...

'I'm looking at the end of my life and sometimes you want to redress wrongs for your own satisfaction' - Dan Callister As the end descends on another summer in the Hamptons, the Long Island resort ...

You may think that a wire-walker has little or nothing to do with jazz or art. But to me, wire-walking is all about rhythm, balance and expression. In the case of Philippe Petit—perhaps the world's ...