A 27-year-old math student has set a world record for highlining.
Friedrich Kuhne walked a rope strung between two mountain cliffs, the Baou de Saint-Jeannet and the Baou des Noirs in Vence, on the French Riviera.
The rope was just under a mile long and 2000 feet in the air.
It took Kuhne about two hours to make the crossing.
The 1600-meter (5,250-foot) journey doubled the old record.
“The line is very long, the longest in the world, and I have never crossed such a long line,” said Kuhne afterwards.
“For me it’s about endurance but also it does this [demonstrates an extreme slope] and that’s very hard. In the middle it’s easier but at the end and the beginning, it’s really, really hard to do this.”
Highlining is like tightrope walking with a looser rope. The emphasis is on height and distance.
The French Riviera Highline Meeting was held on May 21.
Kuhne was the only competitor who tried to break the record.
He is studying to be a math professor
