Phillipe Petit by Barry Gordin

By: Alix Cohen (The two exclamation points, Petit explains, are for him to walk between.) August 11, 2024: Fifty years ago, 24 year old Philippe Petit traversed the two towers of The World Trade Center, 1350 feet above the ground on a ¾" steel wire with neither harness nor net. (He had already executed three astonishing Walks elsewhere.) This week, to benefit the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where he's A…

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