Watch: These tightrope walkers are breaking records

A new world-highlining distance record has been set by four German tightrope walkers who have successfully crossed a 2.1 km-long (1.3-mile) valley in Swedish lapland on a line suspended at a height of 600 metres (1,968 feet).

The video footage, shared by ‘Reuters’, showed a barefoot man delicately tiptoeing across the line between two mountain peaks in a snow-capped valley.

“I just focused on being very slow, being extremely clean and just reaching the end,” said Quirin Herterich, who was first to cross the line before compatriots Lukas Irmler, Ruben Langer and Friedi Kuehne successfully followed.

“This is hard because it’s really exposed. It is 600 metres high and it’s really windy here sometimes,” David Sjostrom, the project manager of the exploit, told ‘Reuters’.

It took the team two days to rig the line across the two Arctic Circle peaks which, at this time of year, bask in 24-hour sunlight.

“This place, Lapporten, is for me an iconic place and a very beautiful landmark… When I started looking at bigger projects I saw a picture of Lapporten… and just when I saw it, I knew it had to be rigged and crossed,” Sjostrom added.

Watch the video here:

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