Life on a Highline with Faith Dickey

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Faith Dickey is one of the greatest highliners in the world. In 2012, Faith broke the record for the longest free solo, that's highlining without a safety harness. Then in 2014, she became the first woman to cross a highline over 100 meters long.

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0:00.0	What adventures, big or small, are on your bucket list?
0:05.9	Have you or someone you know gone after a wild idea that we should know about?
0:10.8	Send an email to podcasts at REI.com and let us know we're always looking for more stories
0:17.8	about bugging the norm and going after wild ideas.
0:32.4	If you've spent a summer afternoon in your local park, chances are you've seen a slackline
0:37.6	tied between two trees.
0:39.7	The line is suspended a couple of feet off the ground and people try to walk across it.
0:45.0	They delicately place one foot in front of the other using their arms to help them balance.
0:51.2	What you may not have seen is high lining.
0:53.9	It's like slacklining on steroids.
0:56.9	Instead of balancing a few feet from the ground, high liners suspend the line across huge
1:01.7	canyons or between tall buildings.
1:04.7	The line is only about an inch or two wide and it's often hundreds or thousands of feet
1:10.3	in the air.
1:11.8	Faith Dickey is one of the greatest high liners in the world.
1:16.6	In 2012, Faith broke the record for the longest free solo that's high lining without a safety harness.
1:24.3	Then in 2014, she became the first woman to cross a high line over a hundred meters long.
1:31.4	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI co-op studios production.
1:41.7	Faith Dickey has made a career out of high lining in breathtaking places.
1:47.0	Early on, she traveled around Europe scraping together gear sponsorships until she started
1:52.3	getting hired for TV work. At one point, Faith even starred in a Volvo commercial where she
1:58.8	walked a line between two moving trucks. Faith is one of the first professional high liners
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