Norwegian daredevil cycles between peaks

A Norwegian daredevil has bicycled on a tightrope between two mountain peaks, and just to make it interesting he did it while doing a handstand.

Eskil Ronningsbakken worked without a net 1,000 meters -- more than 3,000 feet -- above the valley floor.

"The weather is the biggest risk," he told the newspaper Hamar Arbeiderblad. "The wind is never even and it comes in gusts."

Ronningsbakken performed the stunt in Norway's spectacular Lysefjord south of Bergen on the west coast.

Ronningsbakken spends his summers in Norway in activities like walking a tightrope between two summits or standing on his hands on the edge of Lysefjord's famous Pulpit Rock. In the winter, he travels abroad where he balances on high buildings.

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