Sydney Harbour Bridge
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, spanning Sydney Harbour from the central business district to the North Shore. The view of the bridge, t
Sydney Harbour Bridge from the northwest in 2025
Sydney Harbour from the north-east with the Opera House, CBD, Circular Quay, the Bridge, the Parramatta River, North Sydney and Kirribilli in the foreground
The bridge illuminated at night
One of the nuts that hold the bridge on its abutments; this one is at the north end. (Hand for scale)
Philippe Petit
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Philippe Petit is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973, as well
Sydney Harbour Bridge
…workers. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were occasional newspaper reports of climbers who had made illegal arch traversals of the bridge by night. In 1973 Philippe Petit walked across a wire between the two pylons at the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Since 1998, BridgeClimb has made it possible for tourists…
Petit at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009
In this 1974 promotion for Hess's department store, Petit tight roped across Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania
1974 Hess's ad, with an image of Petit's walk across the Twin Towers