Three-tine world champion slackliner
Jaan Roose of Eestonia on Wednesday broke another world record
by walking across the Messina Strait on a slackline tightrope.
The Red Bull athlete had set off from the Santa Trada Pier in
Villa San Giovanni on the Calabrian side of the strait,
harnessed at a height of 250 metres, on his way to a feat never
attempted before: the Messina Crossing, i.e. crossing the 3,600
metres of the Straits of Messina on a 1.9 centimetre wide ribbon
of rope.
Roose, who received a slushy 'grantita', a Sicilian speciality,
upon his arrival, said he was "very happy with the feat".
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