Philippe Petit and his 5 students (I'm wearing white!)
I’ve just finished an amazing life experience-studying tightrope walking with the legendary Philippe Petit in his first ever master class. Philippe, you may remember, made international headlines when he walked a wire between the two World Trade Center towers in 1974, and was the subject of this year’s Academy Award winning documentary about the walk, Man on Wire. Yes, I walked the wire with him-what he calls “Baptism on the wire.” But more, I learned how to approach the impossible…. Oh, and his 2 rules of class: no yawning and no leaning. Just try that for a day!
