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There’s a fine line between audacity and ambition. Philippe Petit walked that line and lived to tell the story. In 1974, the French tightrope artist, with the help of a motley crew of accomplices, ...

Philippe Petit honored the anniversary by getting back on the wire at New York's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. The man featured in one of the most stunning images as he walked on a high ...

39 years ago today, on August 7, 1974, street performer Philippe Petit traversed a tightrope between the Twin Towers in what many later called the “artistic crime of the century.” With no safety ...

New York — Fifty years after his iconic high-wire walk between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, Philippe Petit recreated the death-defying stunt with a performance about 7 miles north ...

On Aug. 7, 1974, Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the spires of New York's Twin Towers. On Wednesday and Thursday, the French high-wire artist celebrated the 50-year anniversary with a stunt ...

French daredevil Philippe Petit illegally stepped onto a wire strung between the World Trade Center's twin towers, balancing 110 stories in the air on Aug. 7, 1974. Look back at the jaw-dropping ...

While talking with Joseph Gordon-Levitt about Philippe Petit — the French daredevil who walked a high wire between the World Trade Center towers in 1974 — the conversation turns to a connection ...

NEW YORK — Weeks from his 70th birthday, and a few decades from his famous high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, French tightrope artist Philippe Petit continues to defy ...

EXCLUSIVE: In what is shaping up to be the first project from Tom Rothman’s TriStar Productions, the Sony-based film company is in the process of acquiring To Reach The Clouds, the working title of ...

TO REACH THE CLOUDS: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers. By Philippe Petit. North Point Press, $30; 244 pp. "I approach the edge ... I place my left foot on the steel rope ... My eyes catch ...