Daredevil Nik Wallenda successfully completed two risky high-wire stunts between two skyscrapers recently. He traversed the Marina Towers at a terrifying 19-degree incline and then did it again, this time blindfolded and navigating by ear while suspended 500 feet over the Chicago River on November 2.

Wallenda had no harness or a net that could catch him in case he falls, so the network that aired the event, Discovery Channel, had a 10-second delay so "producers could cut away if he falls."

He himself revealed in an interview with Daily Mail that if ever he falls, he would try to grab the wire as he falls and try to hold on to it for as long as he could until help arrives

Wallenda, who said that there was 'no time for fear to enter into your mind' during the attempt, completed the first part of the stunt in 6 minutes 52 seconds while the second stunt where he was blindfolded took him just 1 minute and 17 seconds.

During the stunt at the Windy City, Wallenda had to endure 24mph of gusts of wind coupled with freezing temperatures as low as 40 degrees.

Wallenda grabbed two Guiness World Records with the stunts: the highest inclined tightrope walk and the highest blindfolded walk.

The 35-year old daredevil comes from a family of tightrope walkers and a member of the "Flying Wallenda," shared that he wouldn't be successful if it weren't for the support of his family.

"If they came up to me moments before I was getting on that cable, even though 220-plus countries around the world are watching live, 'You know what? I don't want you doing it.'-I wouldn't do it. It's that simple," Nik confessed.

Nik also shared an event wherein he faced near-death during a stunt that worried his wife, Erendira.

"I did an event about five years ago when I went on top of a Ferris wheel, they turned it on and I walked. I rehearsed once it was moving everywhere. I got down to the ground and my wife had bitten every one of her nails off. And she's usually pretty confident in what I do," the daredevil shared.

The Wallendas are a tight-knit clan, who have faced both successes and failures. A year before Nik was born, Nik Wallenda's great grandfather, Karl Wallenda, who was 73 at that time, performed a tightrope stunt between two buildings in Puerto Rico.