Fifty years ago, Sydney was treated to one of its most strange and inspiring sights when a highwire artist walked across a cable above the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Philippe Petit is most famous for his 1973 walk between the Twin Towers in New York — the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire.
But before the Frenchman attempted his US feat, he stunned Sydney motorists and passers-by when he stepped out onto a cable strung between the northern pylons of the Harbour Bridge.
