French high-wire artist Nathan Paulin balanced on a 2.2 kilometer slackline at 100 meters on the famous rock island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy. According to his own statements, he set a new world record. “It was a very intense experience,” said Paulin after his arrival at Mont Saint-Michel.
The island in the Normandy Wadden Sea, named after Archangel Michael, is located about a kilometer off the coast. The famous abbey on Mont-Saint-Michel is one of the most popular tourist attractions in France. The UNESCO World Heritage Site attracts millions of visitors every year.
The two centimeter wide band was stretched between a crane on the mainland and the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel on the monastery hill. Paulin, who wore jeans and a blue and white striped T-shirt, was barefoot and had a seat belt, said he wanted to “show the rocky island differently”.
Paulin: “A very intense experience”
“Sometimes it was a lot harder than I imagined, and other times it just walked and it was easy. It’s a very intense experience. I went through a lot of feelings in two hours, and I still do. I’m very happy to be on Mont Saint-Michel now and to have set this record,” said Paulin after the adventure.
After strong gusts of wind shortly before the start, it remained calm during his demonstration. “It’s a beautiful place that has always fascinated me,” said the 28-year-old, who wanted to walk the route in the other direction on Wednesday, with the abbey behind him.
His next dream? “I would like to do the same between the Eiffel Tower and the Montparnasse Tower, which is 2.7 kilometers,” he says. He recognized that this was a major technical challenge.
Have already set several world records
Paulin has set several world records in the past and has already walked twice on a rope stretched across the Seine between the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadero in Paris.
Source: Krone
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