Famed daredevil and tightrope walker Nik Wallenda successfully crossed the Little Colorado River Gorge in Arizona tonight, without using either a tether or a safety harness.
Wallenda walked along a quarter-mile stretch of two-inch steel cable, 1,500 feet in the air.
"I've had a dream to be the first person in the world to walk a tight rope directly above the Grand Canyon," Wallenda said in a video statement on his website, where he announced his intended feat.
But despite his claim that he would be crossing the Grand Canyon, Wallenda, 34, of Sarasota, Fla., actually walked over a gorge near the canyon.
"Mr. Wallenda needs to buy a GPS or somebody give this guy a map," Milton Tso, president of the Cameron Chapter of the Navajo Nation, told The Associated Press. "He's not walking across the Grand Canyon, he's walking across the Little Colorado River Gorge on the Navajo Nation. It's misleading and false advertising."
PHOTO: In this photo provided by the Discovery Channel, aerialist Nik Wallenda walks a 2-inch-thick steel cable taking him a quarter mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge, Ariz. on Sunday, June 23, 2013.
According to the AP, some members of Navajo Nation were troubled by the thought of using the dangerous feat as a publicity stunt.
But Geri Hongeva, spokeswoman for the tribe's Division of Natural Resources, told the AP she thought the event would be a positive thing for the Navajo.
