While watching an acrobat walk a tightrope at a Cirque de Soleil show ... the highly customized shoes that generate friction between the rope and the acrobat’s feet. Creating these shoes ...

Tightrope walking is known as Dawazi in Xinjiang ... performing Dawazi in high heels is different from wearing normal shoes, though it does require better control of her center of gravity.

His leather shoes with an elk-skin sole helped him ... But he said he would give up tightrope walking altogether if his wife and children ever asked him. Before the walk, a group of Navajos ...

First, Gallagher started walking with wedges on her backyard wire, then graduated to heels. The previous record for tightrope walking in heels was just under 50 feet. The wire on Saturday was over ...

"The shoes were not ideal -- they were a few ... Dickey stressed that her sport is different from tightrope walking, which is what many people may think of when they picture someone walking ...

China's "prince of tightrope walking" broke a world record Friday after spending several hours a day for two months gingerly crossing a wire above Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium. Adili Wuxor ...