AP Photos: Wallenda's trek across Niagara Falls

Nik Wallenda greets fans after inspecting the wire prior to his walk across Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda will attempt what nobody has done before: A high wire walk directly over the precipice at Niagara Falls and 190 feet (58 meters) above the churning torrent below. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Nik Wallenda greets fans after inspecting the wire prior to his walk across Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda will attempt what nobody has done before: A high wire walk directly over the precipice at Niagara Falls and 190 feet (58 meters) above the churning torrent below. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Nik Wallenda walks over Niagara Falls on a tightrope in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda has finished his attempt to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls. The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)

Crowds push forward to get a look at Nik Wallenda's tightrope walk over Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda is attempting what nobody has done before: A high wire walk directly over the precipice at Niagara Falls and 190 feet (58 meters) above the churning torrent below. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)

New York State Parks employee Evyn Costanzo monitors peregrine falcons along the Niagara Gorge before Nik Wallenda's walk across Niagara Falls on a wire in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Friday, June 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert)

The Maid of the Mist enters near the dangers zone before Nik Wallenda's attempt to walk a 1,800-foot (550-meter) long tightrope over the brink of the Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, Ont., on Friday, June 15, 2012. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) ? With thousands of fans riveted on his every step, daredevil Nik Wallenda walks 1,800 feet on a tightrope spanning across the mist-fogged Niagara Falls.

The crowds watched as he prepared on the U.S. side of the roaring falls, made his cautious decline toward the wettest portion of wire and then up toward the Canadian side.

The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas took steady, measured steps amid the rushing mist over the falls as an estimated crowd of 125,000 people on the Canadian side and 4,000 on the American side watched. Along the way, he calmly prayed aloud.

Here is a photo gallery of Wallenda's journey.

Associated Press

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