VIDEO: Watch Blindfolded Nik Wallenda Live Tightrope Walk; Find Out Next Planned Stunt!

Last night, dare devil Nik Wallenda, "The King of the Highwire," tightrope walked over the Chicago skyline wearing a blindfold. The broadcast titled SKYSCRAPER LIVE WITH NIK WALLENDA aired live around the world in more than 220 countries on the Discovery Channel.

"I'm always pushing myself both physically and emotionally. I hope to inspire people around the world and show that the impossible is not so impossible if you set your mind to it," said the 35-year-old Wallenda. "This has been a dream of mine and something that I've been practicing for awhile."

For the first part of the tightrope crossing, Wallenda walked further than two city blocks - uphill rising to a 15-degree angle - from the iconic Marina City's west tower to the Leo Burnett Building at more than 50 stories high above the Chicago River. Not only was this the highest skyscraper walk in the history of the Flying Wallenda family, it was the first time that he has ever attempted it at such a steep angle.

Nik was then blindfolded for the second part of the tightrope walk, which spanned from the Marina City's west tower to the east tower. Dozens of cameras were positioned across the city and on helicopters - capturing every step as Wallenda attempts to cross one of the windiest sections of Chicago.

Wallenda spoke to PEOPLE about his next planned stunt:

"Next year is the 45th anniversary of my great-grandfather's biggest walk, which was across Tallulah Gorge in Georgia," Wallenda says of his idol, famed wire walker Karl Wallenda, who died in 1978 during a high-wire stunt in Puerto Rico.

"He did a headstand on the wire, and I've never done one in public before. I want to recreate that walk, his greatest. He's my hero and my inspiration and I'm hoping there might be a way for me to actually simulate walking the wire with him."

And in February, he plans to recreate his family's famous seven-person pyramid.

"We're going to do that in my hometown of Sarasota," he says. "There's a lot of family history there. It's going back to my roots."

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