The high-wire artist has on his fourth world record

The 46-year-old Freddy Nock rose on Wednesday unsecured and with only one rod from Corvatsch balance on the tightrope of the cable car middle station down the valley. Nock secured with the successful Tallauf on the 56 millimeter thick rope his fourth world record. The second run in the Engadine after that is on the cable car in the Diavolezza Bernina area is part of the project "7 records in 7 days", which concluded on Saturday with a water crossing on Lake Thun.

Corvatsch summit Nock started at the top station at 3298 meters above sea level and rose in one hour and 48 minutes to the valley station agent. He mastered a range of 1672 meters, overcoming a height difference of 569 meters with 38-57 percent slopes. The last 80 meters he ran backwards, as Nock told management. Nock collects with his world-record-tour money for the Foundation for UNESCO project. He wants to help children in Bangladesh. From the cable cars Corvatsch the Artist on Wednesday received 5,000 francs for the project.

The cradle of rope runs Nockschen

The Engadine is like the cradle of the spectacular cable runs of Swiss artists. His first running back to the year 1989. Nock then ran the rope over the signal path at St. Moritz. The current record-tour will take place on (tomorrow) Thursday continued in Thörishaus, a village west of the city of Bern. There does Freddy Nock, the longest and highest bicycle crossing on a rope tackle. On Friday, the highest ropes course in the world stands on the Jungfraujoch in the program.

Source derbund.ch