Sydney - An Australian circus performer aboard 17-metre poles set a world record for stilt walking Sunday in Adelaide. National champion Roy Maloy succeeded in walking the requisite five steps on stilts the height of a four-storey building.
The stilts weighed nearly 60 kilograms, and it took Maloy 11 attempts to get moving.
"I have never done anything that I was more scared doing in my entire adult life," he told the national broadcaster ABC. "I was more convinced that I was going to die then than at any other point in my life, so I'm really thrilled."
