Female Daredevil Hangs By Teeth and Toes Above Niagara Falls

Erendira Wallenda completed the heart-pounding stunt this morning.

June 15, 2017 10:20 am
Aerialist Erendira Wallenda hangs beneath a helicopter during a stunt over the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls, New York, June 15, 2017.
Aerialist Erendira Wallenda hangs beneath a helicopter during a stunt over the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls, New York, June 15, 2017. (Getty/AFP PHOTO/Geoff Robins)

Aerialist Erendira Wallenda made history this morning by hanging from a helicopter by her teeth and toes at a record-breaking height over the rushing water of Niagara Falls, USA Today reports.

The wife of famed high-wire daredevil Nik Wallenda, Erendira admitted to reporters in a press conference following her stunts that the weather made the task more difficult than she anticipated.

“It felt amazing. It was a little more windy than I expected it to be, but then I just put myself back in my backyard where I train all the time,” Wallenda said. “I felt good enough to where I was able to hang by my teeth a second time.”

There may be some hard feelings in her household.

Erendira’s performance comes several years later and took place three hundred feet higher than her husband’s then-record-breaking stunt in 2011, in which he hung by his teeth 250 feet in the air.

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