Falling Fortunes

Garrett Sowden is an author. Author of Defying Gravity. Original title was Falling How Our Greatest Fear Became Our Greatest Thrill A History. He tells the following story: Charles Blonden strung a rope across Niagara Falls, put a chair down, bounced on two legs and stood out of it. For his greatest trick he carried a small cast iron stove on his back with some firewood - made an omelet right over this churning like rapid.