First isle crossing by Skye-wire daredevil

THIS cool daredevil has become the first person to complete a death-defying high-wire walk on Skye.

Alex Schulz kept his nerve to slackline from the island’s West Skye cliffs to its MacLeod’s Maidens rock stacks, 250ft above the sea.

While onlookers might have been green around the gills seeing his stunt, the German adrenaline junkie made the feat environmentally friendly.

Alex, 30, and pals at film firm One Inch Dreams sailed

from London to the Inner Hebrides before walking and climbing to the start. He said they were “overwhelmed” by the kindness of local Scots. Walk in the Skye...Alex Schulz, inset and left, edges his way along the line to the isle’s stacks