Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - Daredevil Nik Wallenda is back in Buffalo to perform a wire walk high over D'Youville College.
Wallenda will walk along a high wire between two five-story buildings on the college campus Thursday.
Wallenda's walk across a 320-foot (98-meter) high wire will mark the opening of D'Youville College's Health Professions Hub. Wallenda famously walked over nearby Niagara Falls on a wire in a live televised event in 2012.
Wallenda, a seventh-generation acrobat, also has walked above an active volcano in Nicaragua, over the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon and above New York's Times Square, the last feat with his sister, Lijana Wallenda.
He will wear a harness for his feat in Buffalo.
The Wallenda family has been a star tightrope-walking troupe for generations, tracing their roots to 1780 in Austria-Hungary, when their ancestors traveled as a band of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, animal trainers and trapeze artists.
D'Youville is a small private university with about 3,000 full- and part-time students. Officials say the new health clinic will serve the city's west side while letting students gain clinical experience.
You can watch the walk LIVE hear via WIVB TV and follow along LIVE on WBEN as Mike Baggerman, Brendan Keany and Tom Bauerle provide LIVE step by step coverage.
Read more about Wallenda's walk here
