High-wire daredevil Adili plans Taiwan Strait walk stunt

China's most famed high-wire daredevil Adili Wuxor announced here on Wednesday that he will attempt to walk above the Taiwan Strait.

"I have planned a tightrope walk across the Taiwan Strait for years,"said the 44-year-old Uygur.

"It will be the first high-wire stunt above the sea."

Adili, who is here taking part in the demonstration events at the Chinese Ethnic Games, said that he has done many on-site researches for his heroic plan.

Adili believed that the 4,800-meter high-wire walk would be not only a challenge of his career, but also an opportunity to enhance the exchanges between both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Adili, the seventh generation of a high-wire walking family from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has several records listed with the Guinness World Records organization. His feats include high-wire walks above the Yangtze River in 13 minutes and 48 seconds and between two apices of Hengshan Mountain in central China's Hunan province, the longest walking distance on a 1,399-meter-long wire at a height of 436 meters. Endi