Clifford Claverly Clifford Claverly is another tightrope walker to challenge the Niagara Gorge.
He is probably best known as being the fastest tightrope walker, having completed his journey in the time of 2 minutes, 32 5/8 seconds.
Most of his contemporaries had taken fifteen to twenty minutes to cross.
Claverly also amazed the audiences with such stunts as skipping a rope, hanging by one arm, hanging by one foot, sitting on a chair and using a wheelbarrow.
