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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/tv-presenter-makes-highwire-walk.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton completed the high-wire walk for Comic Relief" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-tv-presenter-makes-highwire-walk.jpg" alt="Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton completed the high-wire walk for Comic Relief"/></a></p>
<p>Blue Peter action woman Helen Skelton has become the first person to walk between the chimneys of Battersea Power Station on a high-wire.</p>
<p>The 27-year-old covered the 150-metre stretch above the landmark south London building in just 11 minutes.</p>
<p>She was 66 metres high for the Red Nose Day charity challenge, which was delayed by 40 minutes because of high winds.</p>
<p>But Skelton completed the task at a steady speed despite her eight-metre long balance pole swaying in front of her.</p>
<p>The BBC children&#8217;s presenter was inspired to do the stunt by the documentary Man On Wire, which shows Frenchman Philippe Petit walking on a tightrope between the twin towers of New York&#8217;s World Trade Centre in 1974.</p>
<p>She had been training in France in recent weeks which she described as &#8220;really intense&#8221; and &#8220;physically exhausting&#8221;.</p>
<p>A safety device attached to her in case she fell was not needed as Skelton made no slip-ups on the 18mm thick wire.</p>
<p>The challenge will be shown on future episodes of Blue Peter.</p>
<p>Anyone wanting to support her fundraising feat for Comic Relief can go to www.rednoseday.com/girlonwire.</p>
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