Daredevil gets leg cramp halfway through Australia’s highest tightrope walk

One daredevil in Australia has just become the poster child for pushing through the pain during a death defying tightrope walk between the peaks of Melbourne’s Eureka Tower.

Kane Petersen was in the middle of walking Australia’s highest tightrope walk, 300 meters (or nearly 1,000 feet) above the ground, when he got a leg cramp!

The high wire artist lay down in the middle of the 21-meter crossing, and there were no safety nets below to catch him if he fell.

“I tried to get my leg back out to stand back up and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, how am I going to do this?’“ Petersen told the Herald Sun, “I just pushed myself through it. I have just lived a dream — it’s fantastic.”

On the other side of the walk, he was greeted by his wife, Jessica McCrindle.

Petersen’s stunt is reminiscent of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s crossing between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.