Tightrope Daredevil Extraordinaire: The Great Blondin
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!
The Great Blondin
Charles Blondin was born Jean-Francois Gravelet in 1824 France. Spending a lifetime performing miraculous stunts on a tightrope, he is considered the world’s greatest funambulist—tightrope walker—of the 19th century.