Ahdili was born in 1971 in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and his father was the five-generation descendant ofDawazi(tightrope walking in the Uygur language). The old man thoughtDawazwas quite dangerous and decided not to pass his skills to his son.
Ahdili began to learn
Dawazhimself at the age of eight and now is the master of Uygur
Dawazwalker among the Uygurs today.
Ahdili, who was hailed by China's state media as "The King of Sky", became a living icon in UygurDawazwhen he made a new Guinness record in 1998 walking across China's famous Three Gorges in the shortest time-span.
Ahdili also made a Guinness record on October 6, 2000 by successfully walking across a stainless steel rope connecting two peaks on Hengshan Mountain in Hunan Province.
Currently, Ahdili is teaching his five-year-old daughter to practiceDawaz. The seventh-generation descendant ofDawazis expected to inject new vigor into this old acrobatic item.
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