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Celebrated Canadian tightrope walker Jay Cochrane has died.

He defied death hundreds of times walking the wire. But in the end “The Prince of the Air” couldn’t beat cancer. As Lauran Sabourin reports, Cochrane died Wednesday in Niagara Falls, the city where he wanted to achieve his ultimate wire walking dream.

Jay Cochrane on his website