One slip and he would plummet 10,000ft to the ground below.
Yet Freddy Nock too his most hair-raising stunt nonchalantly in his stride.
These stunning images show 45-year-old Freddy Nock completing his latest feat - walking more than 5,200 feet down a mountain cable car wire - without a safety net or a harness in the Swiss mountains.
Fearless: 45-year-old high wire artist Freddy Nock walks on the rope of the the Corvatsch cable car in Switzerland wearing no safety harness. His only aid was an outsized pole to help him balance
Balancing act: Swiss acrobat Freddy Nock moves carefully as he walks along a cable car line more than 10,000 feet above the ground - without a harness or safety net
Nock, a hire wire artist extraordinaire who works for a circus, undertook this latest stunt near the Swiss mountain resort of St Moritz.
Long way down: Nock's incredible feat was his second attempt. Bad weather forced him to abandon a first try
He shuffled along the cable for some 5,249 feet, starting from the mountain station - at an altitude of 10,836 feet - to the middle station, which is 8,865 feet above sea level.
Nock, who starting learning acrobatic skills at the age of four, successfully completed the walk on his second attempt, after bad weather forced him to stop earlier in the day.
He previously performed similar stunts Germany, staging a climb over the slopes of the country's highest mountain, and walking 900-metres over Lake Zurich.
Above the clouds: Nock completed a similar high wire walk in 2009, when he staged a climb over the slopes of Germany's highest mountain for charity
Daredevil: Nock walked down over a distance of some more than 5,200 feet
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