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Reuters' video footage showed a barefoot man sway and teeter as
he delicately tiptoed across the line between two mountain peaks
in a snow-capped valley.
"I just focused on being very slow, being extremely clean and
just reaching the end," said Quirin Herterich, who was first to
cross the line before compatriots Lukas Irmler, Ruben Langer and
Friedi Kuehne successfully followed.
"This is hard because it's really exposed, it's 600 metres high,
it's 2,150 metres and it's really windy here sometimes," said
David Sjostrom, the project manager of the exploit.
It took the team two days to rig the line across the two Arctic
Circle peaks which, at this time of year, bask in 24 hour
sunlight.
"This place, Lapporten, is for me an iconic place and a very
beautiful landmark ... When I started looking at bigger projects
I saw a picture of Lapporten ... and just when I saw it, I know
it had to be rigged and crossed," Sjostrom added.
(Reporting by Colm Fulton; Editing by Mike Collett-White)
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