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Man walks 500m on high wire over volcano

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Nik Wallenda has walked 500m along a steel highwire over the active Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.

The famous daredevil completed the act on live television on Wednesday night.

The 41-year-old completed the death-defying feat walking across the volcano’s active lava lake.

Masaya is one of only eight volcanoes in the world that has an active lava lake and generates heat of about 1100 degrees Celsius.

He was attached the whole time to a safety harness and had to pass through foggy conditions that required tracking his movements with special thermal cameras. 

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