FILE - In this May 16, 2012 photo, Nik Wallenda performs a walk on a tightrope in the rain during training for his walk over Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, N.Y. For his latest feat, the professional daredevil is going to try to do an unharnessed tightrope walk high above the beach in Atlantic City, N.J. Atlantic City tourism officials are hoping 50,000 or more people show up to watch Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, as Wallenda attempts to traverse a line connecting the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel to the Tropicana Casino & Resort. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)
FILE - In this May 16, 2012 photo, Nik Wallenda performs a walk on a tightrope in the rain during training for his walk over Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, N.Y. For his latest feat, the professional daredevil is going to try to do an unharnessed tightrope walk high above the beach in Atlantic City, N.J. Atlantic City tourism officials are hoping 50,000 or more people show up to watch Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, as Wallenda attempts to traverse a line connecting the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel to the Tropicana Casino & Resort. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ? Professional daredevil Nik Wallenda says the sand on the tightrope made his high wire walk over an Atlantic City beach more challenging.
Wallenda successfully walked 1,300 feet along the wire while about 100 feet above the ground on Thursday.
He was unharnessed as a crowd estimated by local officials at 150,000 watched.
Wallenda said after he had completed the feat that he considered doing it barefoot when he discovered that the sand made his wire so slick, but ultimately kept his suede and buckskin shoes on.
In June, Wallenda wowed the masses when he did a similar stunt 200 feet above Niagara Falls.
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