My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely those winds, you can't re-enact them, you can't recreate them. Then my forearms started to tense up and you feel like running.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.

Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.