What you can Dream, you can do

 

Dear Friends

Happy Evening

 

Humans are terrestrial animals.

We are adapted living on the land.

So all our activities are centering on the land.

We walk on the land, run on the land etc

 

Human brain is well developed and we are capable of learning many skills.

So we can swim in water like fishes

We cannot fly in the air because our heavy body weight will not cooperate

Definitely we can walk in the air using a tightrope.

 

Jay Cochrane is a tight rope walker.

He was born in Saint John, N.B.in May 1944, but was raised in Sudbury.

At the age of 14 and against his parents' wishes, he ran away from

home to join the circus, performing at the CNE in Toronto.

 

He referred to himself as the "Prince of the Air" due to his

love of sky walking.

In 1965, he had a fatal fall in Toronto.  

He was paralyzed for four years and doctors told that he would

never walk again.

He returned to his walks after his recovery due to persistence and

determination.

His doctors who said he would never walk again were just amazed.

 

In 1970 ascended his first “sky wire” 40 stories high between two

skyscrapers to help mark the opening of the Hudson Bay Center

tower in Toronto.

 

Two years later, Cochrane set a world record when he walked back

and forth for four kilometres on a 91-metre long wire 36 metres

above ground at the Canadian National Exhibition, also in Toronto.

 

In 1998, he traversed the towers of the Flamingo Hilton,

balancing 30 stories above Las Vegas and walking 800 feet blindfolded.

 

In 1981, Cochrane set a second world record by living on a high wire

for 21 days in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

Cochrane’s greatest achievement was in 1995 when he walked

more than 640 metres over the Yangtze River in China from a

height of 411 metres.

This  event took place  before a crowd of 200,000 people,

making Cochrane a legend in China.

His likeness appeared on a Chinese stamp and a school was

named in his honor

 

In 2012, he performed several high-wire acts in Niagara Falls,

including a 228-metre high walk on a tightrope at the age of 68.

 

He died at the age of 69, due pancreatic cancer.

 

He is a man of great vision. He called himself, “Prince of the air”

He lived according to what he said, “What you can dream, and you can do”

 

He was a brilliant sky walker He performed beautifully in the sky.

He raised millions of dollars for children’s charities

 

Please watch: https://youtu.be/RGeofVQIx4w?t=14

 

Kind Regards