How many wallendas have died performing

Carla Wallenda was born Feb. But she said her first time on the wire was much earlier. She spent her younger years traveling the country as her father's troupe performed in the Ringling Bros. She had a brother, Mario, and a sister, Jenny — all performed in the act.

She began appearing in the family's show in , but not on the high wire at first, according to her biography on the family's website. In , her father told her she could join the high-wire act if she could do a headstand on top of the family's seven-person pyramid. She was able to join the high-wire act later that year. I can recall every single moment for about a two- to three-hour window," Nik said.

That is what we're supposed to do," Nik explained. But that accident is still something Nik and many of his living family members have yet to move past to this day.

I never dealt with it. I dealt with it nine months later when I was in a big top in New York City getting ready to recreate a pyramid. That's when it finally hit me," said Nik. Despite all of this, the Wallendas refuse to let tragedy hold them back. My goal in life is to inspire people that nothing is impossible and if I were to give up, which I did consider after as I said a while ago I thought I was going to have to because of that PTSD, how traumatic that experience was, but if I gave up how am I going to inspire people to not give up?

Skip to content. Saluting the Suncoast. Football Friday Night. Chalkboard Champions. Empowering Voices. Discovering the Suncoast. Line Dance Central. Suncoast View. The Flying Wallendas. As far back as the Wallenda family was performing as a traveling circus troupe. Carla Wallenda left the family act in to form her own troupe. The next season, two of the Wallendas were killed in an accident while performing the pyramid. Her brother was paralyzed. Her husband, Richard Guzman, died in when he fell 60 feet during a performance in West Virginia.

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