At the fifth French Riviera Highline Meeting (FRHM) on Sunday, mathematics student Friedrich Kuhne stepped up to the challenge to beat the world record in highlining.
The 27-year-old took about two hours to cross the rope which stretched 1,600 metres across the valley - double the length of the previous world record of 800 metres.
Mr Kuhne didn’t quite make it to the end of the rope, falling about 100 metres away from the finish line, but still managed to beat the world record by several hundred metres.
Highlining is the extreme version of slacklining, where a piece of flat rope is suspended between two locations and people attempt to walk from one side to the other.
The sport is said to be more difficult than traditional tightrope walking because the rope is less taut and therefore prone to move and bounce as people move across it.
According to the organisers, the rope weighed 300 to 400 kilograms, extended between the cliffs of the Baou de Saint-Jeannet and the Baou des Noirs in Vence, offering a landscape of panoramic views over the French Riviera.
The first edition of the FRHM took place in 2013 and attracts amateurs and pros of the extreme sport every year.
This year's edition began on May 10 and will run until May 22.
-with Reuters
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