A real feat achieved in an exceptional setting.

On Tuesday, tightrope walker Nathan Paulin chose the setting of Mont Saint-Michel (Normandy) to break the world distance record on a slackline.

The 28-year-old Frenchman covered the incredible distance of 2,200 meters long perched a hundred meters high on a strap only two centimeters wide!

Let all those who suffer from vertigo move away, they will get scared.

"It's a very intense experience, in two hours I lived full of emotions and it still is," said Nathan Paulin after arriving in the bell room of the abbey around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday evening.

Two hours earlier, he had jumped from the top of a crane located 114 meters above the ground, near the Couesnon dam.

Attached by a harness and secured by a lifeline, he walked slowly step by step, barefoot on the strap under the eye of drones and cameras, before reaching the famous abbey.

The “highliner” (height slackline) accustomed to world records, fell on the strap a few meters from the finish “for safety reasons”, his entourage had specified.

The choice of Mont Saint-Michel was imposed, "simply because it is a magnificent place that attracted me" but also because "it is important to show this heritage in a different way".

The tightrope walker plans to repeat his crossing on Wednesday afternoon, this time in the other direction starting from the abbey, to "take pictures", according to his team.

His dream ?

Connect the Eiffel Tower to the Montparnasse Tower

“In my next dreams, I hope to be able to do it, it would be to go between the Eiffel Tower and the Montparnasse Tower, which is 2.7 kilometers.

And this crossing proves to me that it is possible, at least technically.

After if there is a big big technical challenge, even bigger than here, and we will see if it happens one day, “said this thrill seeker.

His previous length record dated from 2017 by crossing 1,662 meters at 300 meters high in the Cirque de Navacelles (Gard and Hérault).

He had in turn been overtaken by several other tightrope walkers, who had traveled more than 2,130 meters in northern Sweden in 2021, said his entourage.

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