A high wire artist who smashed all the bones in her face and was lucky to escape with her life after falling in a five-person human pyramid has shared photographs of her injuries as she prepares for her next stunt.
Lijana Wallenda, of the famed Wallenda circus family, broke every bone in her face as well as a rib and some bones in her foot when she fell 40ft to the ground in 2017 while training.
She has been training since then to recover and on Sunday night, will walk across a high wire between two Times Square skyscrapers with her brother, Nik.
They will not use any harnesses and there will be no safety net.
In an interview with https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1141309812380033024 on Wednesday, Lijana described some of her injuries and shared photos of her face.
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Lijana Wallenda's horrifying injuries after she fell 40 ft from a high wire in Sarasota in 2017, breaking every bone in her face. She had to have 72 pins put in place to reconstruct it
Lijana is shown this week, ahead of her next stunt
'I broke a rib. Punctured my right ear canal, I broke my left calcaneus but the big one was every bone in my face,' she said.
Nik has been working with producers for their show all week to try to install the wire they will walk on but it has been 'more difficult' than he could 'ever imagine'.
To train, the siblings have been practicing with wind machines and hoses to simulate rain.
They say the only thing that will stop their stunt is lightning or storms.
The Wallendas have cheated death for decades with their daredevil stunts but the incident in 2017 sent shockwaves through their family and the industry.
They were rehearsing in Sarasota for what would have been the largest moving human pyramid if they had pulled it off.
The eight-person human pyramid was to be the first of its kind to be performed when the group attempted it on the high wire
The group still says they do not know exactly what went wrong but Lijana Wallenda was the first to fall. She was on the second level, walking on a pole
