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 ...

French high wire artist Philippe Petit takes a walk along the railing of one of the World Trade Center Towers high above New York City on July 14, 1986. AP “But all I could think about was the ...

Image Philippe Petit is still walking the high wire at ... The venue has a personal resonance, too. The ashes of his daughter Gypsy, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage when she was 9, are interred ...

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 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 ...

Philippe Petit, in an interview with The Telegraph last year to mark the anniversary of the 1974 stunt, called the performance the highlight of his life. He first got the idea when he read about ...

Philippe Petit balances on a high wire as Sting performs ... He has been an artist in residence there since the 1980s, and the ashes of his daughter Gypsy, who died at age 9 from a cerebral ...

Philippe Petit, in an interview with The Telegraph to mark the anniversary of the 1974 stunt, called the performance the highlight of his life. He first got the idea when he read about the World ...

Philippe Petit, the 73-year-old French tightrope walker, continues to dazzle audiences with his high-wire stunts, including a recent 50-foot act in Washington, D.C. French daredevil and tightrope ...

Philippe Petit could be immortal. It’s the only explanation for how someone could step onto a cable strung between the two towers of the World Trade Center — a plunge of 1,350 feet — and not ...

High-wire artist Philippe Petit marked the 50th anniversary of his iconic walk between the World Trade Center's twin towers with a recreation at Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Aug ...