Discovery’s Pushing the Line Spotlights Highliners Too Free to Fall

“Don’t ever let go, don’t ever let goWe’re at the end of a burning tightrope”- Billy Talent Human beings are capable of incredible feats and abilities when they’re motivated. Now, if you take fear out of the equation, then the things humans can do become limitless. Fear keeps people grounded, in comfort zones, and most ironically, fear keeps us alive. Watching people who are able to control, contain, or even ignore that fear to do things they enjoy is a wonder. Especially if something they enjoy happens to be walking along a one-inch rope thinner than a belt between two cliffs 500 ft above ground. If you’re wondering who the fuck enjoys doing that, lemme introduce you to the world of highliners being featured in Discovery’s latest series Pushing the Line. Everything’s on the line – literally This is going to sound like a plot to an anime but just like there’s an anime for everything there’s literally a community for everything. Pushing the Line centers around a group of highliners that meet up annually for thirty days to travel the world setting up slacklines at different locations. They’ll be walking these slacklines in attempts to break world records, doing tricks on the line, and more each week. Let me just reiterate that these folks are choosing to walk along thin ass ropes hundreds of feet in the air. Sure, they’re hooked to a rope but it’s the same rope that they’re walking across. This means if that slackline is not secured properly, that highliner is falling to their…