Carla Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas High-Wire Act Dies at 85. The performer died of natural causes in Sarasota, Florida, on Saturday morning, according to her son Rick Wallenda. By.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Carla Wallenda, a member of the Flying Wallendas high-wire act and the last surviving child of the famed troupe’s founder, has died. She was 85.

The Flying Wallendas astonished the world once again, becoming the first to cross New York’s Times Square on a tightrope 25 stories above the city streets. CNN values your feedback 1.

The Flying Wallendas cheated death twice before when their high-wire pyramid collapsed. In Akron in 1930, a team of horses bumped a guy-wire that was holding the high wire taut.

LATEST FLYING WALLENDA SAYS HE'S LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM. The Wallendas come from a long line of stunt performers. Patriarch Karl Wallenda died in a fall during a stunt in 1978 in Puerto Rico.

Lijana Wallenda and Nik Wallenda walk a high wire over Times Square, June 23, 2019, in New York City. Getty New York — Two siblings from the famed Flying Wallendas safely crossed Times Square on ...

The Wallendas walk the high wire in Detroit, Michigan, on Jan. 30, 1962; three performers were killed when the pyramid formation collapsed and they fell to the ground. AP ...

The Flying Wallendas conquered the Big Apple on Sunday night. Nik Wallenda, a seventh-generation acrobat, and his sister, Lijana Wallenda, coming back after a near-fatal accident in 2017, when she ...

But the Flying Wallendas' own illusion of invincibility ran out in Detroit with the collapse of that pyramid. A year later, Karl's 42-year-old sister-in-law, Rietta Grotofent, ...

Carla Wallenda, , a member of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act and the last surviving child of the famed troupe’s founder, has died. Her family said she died Saturday, March 6, 2021 in ...