Bio: Wolf, Travis (Stilt
Walking Record) 1998
Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson
Email:
kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Wolf
---Source: Chillicothe Gazette (Ohio) (11 March 1998)
Wolf, Travis
MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN-- It took nearly a decade for Ed "Steady Eddie" Wolf to
lose his stilt-walking record. But at least he was one-upped by his own flesh
and blood.
Atop stilts measuring 40 feet, 10 inches, Travis Wolf took 25 steps Tuesday to
set a new mark for the Guinness Book of Records. His dad took the same number of
steps in 1988, but his stilts were a half-inch shorter.
"I wasn't nervous at all," said Travis, 16.
Travis has been teetering on stilts since he was 1 year old, when he started on
2 inch-high stilts. He started practicing on the super stilts in August.
"I was a lot more nervous than he was," Ed Wolf said. "He was, what do they say,
a man of steel. He knew he could do it, without a doubt."
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