Tightrope walker wows crowds with Eiffel Tower slackline performance
By AFP
03 October 2021 |
5:40 pm
French tightrope walker Nathan Paulin makes his way across a 600-metre long slackline between the Eiffel Tower and Theatre National de Chaillot in Paris - a feat he himself describes as "not as easy as I thought".
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