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| Phillippe Petit, Allentown, 1974 |
Free solo is one of the most dangerous sports. Ultra marathons, UFC fights which allow kicks to the legs and choke holds. Diana Nyad braving shark infested waters in 90 mile swims to Cuba and Phillipe Petit scaling skyscrapers or tightrope walling between them and the crew of the dirigible who perished on the way ti the wreckage of the Titanic, the astronauts who never seem to be returning (like the riders in Boston's MTA in the famous folk song), film director Ian Cameron's explorations of The Mariana Trench and the riders of the Tour de France braving ever more difficult courses at record breaking speeds, Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Judge--does the thrill derive from knowing you can't compete with these daredevils or is it vicarious? Does it lie in imagining what it would be like if you could?
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