Nathan Paulin walked over the sky of Barcelona in front of hundreds of spectators. The 350-meter journey took him a little over half an hour.
He equilibrist French, Nathan Paulinwalked 70 meters high, barefoot and on a metallic rope in front of hundreds of spectators. The route was about 350 meters, the distance that separates the Telefónica and Generali buildings, in the center of Barcelona.
The renowned tightrope walker, who was barefoot on a thickness of barely two centimeters, needed a little over half an hour to go and return from one structure to another, stop the attentive gaze of those present in the Catalonia square.
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This way, the man was part of the inauguration of the Grec Festivalcoinciding with the 200th anniversary of Paseo de Gràcia, one of the main and most famous avenues in the Spanish city.
The act, andmarked in the show The traceursis directed by Rachid Ouramdane and accompanied by the soundtrack composed by the musician Jean-Baptiste Julien.
Nathan Paulin, the man who breaks the record at heights
The young man assured that in these kinds of challenges he always feels a little afraid, but once he gets on the cable, confidence takes over him. “I can experience fear of the void and all the people below, but I try to feel everything that these beautiful places I go to bring to it,” he said about it.
“When you’re on top of the rope you learn to react and overcome yourself, you live everything more intensely,” he added.
Nathan Paulin set a new world record on a tightrope last year by running 2,200 meters on a wire suspended between a crane and the Mont Saint-Michel Abbey, located in the Manche department of the Normandy region of France. .
Source: Ambito
