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 Chinese
acrobat to stay 27 days on tightrope in bid for
Guinness
ABEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese acrobat plans to spend 27
days on a tightrope in order to make it into the
Guinness Book of Records.
 Aisikaier,
who has only one name, is performing unicycle and
balancing tricks to kill time while on the wire,
stretched across a dam in southwestern Sichuan
province, the Beijing Today newspaper said Friday.
The 32-year-old member of China's Turkic-speaking
Uighur minority is spending the nights in a makeshift
shelter attached to the wire, according to the paper.
It did not say when he began his record bid.
He reportedly performed a similar stunt last year,
living on a tightrope for 26 days, but he failed to
have any official witnesses to the feat and it was not
recognized, the paper said.
If successful this time around, Aisikaier will have
beaten the current world record, which is for 25 days
on a wire, set by Ahdil, another Chinese Uighur, in
2002.
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