The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely those winds, you can't re-enact them, you can't recreate them. Then my forearms started to tense up and you feel like running.
If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.
That mist was thick. It was hard to see at times. The wind was wild. It'd come at me one way and hit me from the front, and hit me from the back.
I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now.
One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.
Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.
I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.
There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation.
I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.
One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.
I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.
What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.
I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.
My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.
It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?
I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.
I am so blessed. How blessed I am to have the life that I have.
I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.
This is something no one in the world has ever done.
I was not scared at all.
