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Wallenda plans to tackle the 400-foot-tall (12.92-meter)
soon-to-be-unveiled Orlando Eye this month, he said at a news
conference.
He said he will be walking on a 6-inch wide rim without a safety
harness or balancing pole as the wheel turns.
"This is actually moving," he said. "I have to keep up with that
wheel."
The Orlando Eye, part of a new entertainment complex, will offer
views of central Florida from inside 30 enclosed,
air-conditioned glass capsules when it opens to the public on
May 4.
No distance for the performance has been set yet, but Wallenda,
36, said he was not likely to walk the entire 20 minutes or so
that it takes the wheel to go a full circle.
Wallenda previously walked atop a Ferris wheel in Santa Cruz,
California, but he said the size of the much larger Orlando
wheel and the fact that he will not use a pole sets this stunt
apart.
The seventh-generation member of the "Flying Wallenda" family of
acrobats has walked across the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls.
In November, he walked twice between two Chicago skyscrapers
without a net or harness, doing the second walk blindfolded.
His great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, fell to his death at age
73 from a high wire in Puerto Rico in 1978.
(Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst)
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