The other team was Ogwyn’s, who had been to Everest many times and selected Sherpa guides with whom he had worked in the past they too were among the fatalities. One was responsible for the camera and production team, which had hired some of the 13 Sherpas killed in the avalanche. According to Discovery, the Everest Jump Live project had two expedition teams. Ogwyn and his team instead got involved in recovering bodies from the mountain. Crews had been shooting footage in advance of Discovery’s planned five nights of live programs culminating in what was to have been Joby Ogwyn’s May jump.
NBC News’ Peacock Productions crews, which were to have produced the live jump, were at base camp at the time of the avalanche. The network instead announced it would take the footage it had and turn it into a special documenting the disaster. In much the same way the Naudet brothers happened to be at the World Trade Center towers the morning of September 11, 2001, filming a documentary about members of Lower Manhattan’s Engine 7, Ladder 1 firehouse, and wound up instead producing the docu 9/11, so too were camera crews for the Discovery Channel jump at Everest at the time of the single deadliest incident in the history of the world’s tallest peak. In April, the network scrapped its much-ballyhooed live Mount Everest jump after a weekend avalanche there killed 13.
NIK WALLENDA CHICAGO SKYSCRAPER WALK TV
Related: Fox Not Going Forward With ‘Jump Of The Century’ Live Specialĭiscovery hasn’t had much luck with death-defying TV stunts of late. Once again in an announcement about a Nik Wallenda walk, Discovery noted his great-grandfather Karl Wallenda died after falling from a tightrope in Puerto Rico in 1978. Related: Discovery Channel To Turn Scuttled Everest Jump Footage Into Documentary About Deadly Avalanche Geist and Morales were supposed to talk with a miked Wallenda that day as he made his walk, but it didn’t happen so much - Nik was too busy praying out loud, owing to winds that were stronger than anticipated. Hot Hollywood Stars Trade Halloween Costumes For Red Carpet Glamour. In today’s announcement, Wallenda noted Chicago is called the Windy City and “there’s nothing like doing this during winter in Chicago.” In June 2013, 13 million viewers watched Wallenda slowly walk a wire across the Colorado River Gorge for Discovery. Nik Wallenda's Epic Blindfolded Skyscraper Walk. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.'Naked And Afraid: Last One Standing' Renewed For Season 2 By Discovery Channel His late great-grandfather fell to his death during a stunt in Puerto Rico a year before Wallenda was born. Wallenda has said he next wants to recreate his great-grandfather Karl Wallenda’s high-wire walk at Tallulah Falls Gorge in Georgia, which included two headstands. Relive Nik Wallendas two incredible walks across Chicago at epic heights with no safety tethers or nets. While both those walks took place in the summer, Sunday’s “Skyscraper Live” aired against two ratings powerhouses - AMC’s “The Walking Dead” (14.5 million) and NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” (17 million). Though it was Discovery Channel’s most-watched telecast of the year, its audience paled in comparison to Wallenda’s other high-wire TV specials, like his 2013 walk across the Grand Canyon and 2012 walk across Niagara Falls on ABC (which both peaked 13 million). Wallenda was blindfolded for the second portion, which grew to 6.7 million viewers just after 9 p.m. The first part of The Flying Wallenda heir’s “Skyscraper Live” walk - where the 35-year-old crossed between two Windy City high-rises without a net or tether - drew 5.8 million viewers at 8:35 p.m.
Nearly 6 million viewers watched daredevil Nik Wallenda’s tightrope walk in Chicago Sunday night on Discovery Channel.
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