Chinese Stilt Walker Succeeds in High Wire Challenge

A Chinese stilt walker successfully completed a challenging walk on a 50-meter-long steel wire suspended 10 meters above ground in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Friday. Thousands of people came to Shanshan, a county in the Xinjiang city of Turpan, to watch Saimaiti Yimin’s show, which combines traditional Uygur high-wire walking, known as dawaz, and stilt walking. Wearing 52-cm-high stilts, Yimin completed the high-wire walk in 10 minutes and 36 seconds, hoping to set his fourth