Russia's Alexey Marchenko falls in a river from a high wire during the 1st World High Wire Championships in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 3, 2007. 18 high-wire walkers from eight different countries try to walk on the tightrope, a 30mm-thick iron wire stretching 1,000m across the Han River in Seoul. [AP]

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