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Erendira Wallenda hangs by teeth from helicopter over Niagara Falls
Associated Press
8:14 AM, Jun 15, 2017
11:24 AM, Jun 15, 2017
The aerialist wife of daredevil Nik Wallenda has successfully hung by her teeth from a helicopter over Niagara Falls.
Erendira Vasquez Wallenda
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- The aerialist wife of daredevil Nik Wallenda has successfully hung by her teeth from a helicopter over Niagara Falls. Erendira Wallenda was tethered to a hoop suspended from a helicopter 300 feet (91 meters) above the water Thursday.
After performing a few acrobatic maneuvers, she briefly hung twice by her teeth with the use of a tethered mouth guard in between hanging upside-down by her toes for a few seconds.
The Wallendas say the stunt broke a height record Nik Wallenda set in 2011 when he hung by his teeth 250 feet (76 meters) above Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri.
The 36-year-old mother of three spent about eight minutes of the 10-minute stunt hovering over the falls. Thursday's performance came on the fifth anniversary of Nik Wallenda's televised high-wire walk over Niagara Falls.