O’Ryan McGowan-Arrowroot is wearing colorful pants that are way too long with vertical stripes and a shirt with bold horizontal stripes. His polka dot socks are mismatched. He puts on a hat made from ...

PENDLETON, Ore. — Kricket Caffery is a tiny woman, but she stands 7-foot-4 on stilts. From those dizzying heights, she gets an empowering view of the world. The 36-year-old former Marine makes stilts ...

BRAINERD, Minn. — Chris Dens celebrated his sixth wedding anniversary by breaking a world record. On Sunday, July 12, Dens water skied around Hartley Lake on 11-foot-tall stilts, unofficially breaking ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --For many people, balancing on two ice skates is tough enough, but one Minnesota man adds four feet to the challenge -- his name is Tall Ike. When David Isaacson goes to the rink, ...

Thanks to a grant from Spokane Arts, a local performance troupe is reaching new heights. Since August 2011, Spokane Aerial Performance Arts has provided local instruction in the circus arts, including ...

SAGINAW — Folks around the Old Saginaw City area had someone to look up to this afternoon. Beau J. Carnes, 28, of Saginaw was walking tall through the Old Saginaw City area during the lunch hour. A ...

Kricket Caffery of Pendleton, Ore., makes stilts and teaches people to use them. Caffery makes pegs, leg braces, foot braces and foot plates from ash wood and uses reclaimed bicycle tires for tread.

Neil Sauter, 30, of Blissfield Mich., straps stilts to his legs on South Superior Street in Albion Mich., Sunday morning, May 19, 2013. Sauter is walking 400 miles across the state to raise money for ...

“Transcommunality: Laura Anderson Barbata, Collaboration Beyond Borders” at BRIC House (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic unless noted) Laura Anderson Barbata started her international ...

HAYWARD — Oakland’s Elizabeth Todd is only 6 years old, but at 6 feet tall she grins down at her dad, Allen Todd. Castro Valley’s Shawn Dubin recently turned 69, but she’s also standing tall — 9 feet, ...

For the iconic stilt homes of the Florida Keys, perched on concrete columns rising 12 feet or more above the ground, Hurricane Irma and its powerful storm surge was the ultimate test. Most of the ...