Nathan Paulin claimed a new world record after completing a 2.2km-long walk along a tightrope, across France’s iconic Mont Saint-Michel.
The French daredevil spent two hours carefully crossing the two-centimetre wide slackline suspended between a crane and the famous abbey on the tidal island.
“The idea of doing Mont Saint Michel came from something against nature – making a crossing in a void between land and sea that’s all flat,” Nathan explains.
“But the big difficulty is that there is not much height. It’s 100 metres high, it seems immense but over 2.2km and with my weight I’d go down very low and so we had to develop new straps strong enough
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