Arriving in Shanghai for the Shanghai Tourism Festival, friends noticed the buzz throughout the entire customs force at the airport. Shanghai cemented Jay's relationship with the Chinese people.

"They have changed my life. My personal regret is that I didn't start here 20 years ago. I do hope that our western influence doesn't change their culture and philosophy."

Jay's walk drew the largest crowd of the eight-day Shanghai Tourism Festival as more than 250,000 spectators lined the streets below. The skywalk was a cause for parties in skyscrapers all over Shanghai with prime viewing available in the Pearl of the Orient Tower, Shanghai's tallest structure.

"It was thrilling to be the showpiece of an event that featured over 4,000 performers," said Jay. "Shanghai is incredible, what a marvel." The 600-foot walk, 525 feet above the ground, set a world record for the longest and highest building-to-building nighttime skywalk.

Jay's lifelong dream is to walk over Niagara Falls.

"That has always been my goal," he said. Jay spent the last year trying to win approval for a walk over North America's largest cataract, something that hasn't been done in a century.

French acrobat Charles Blondin captivated the world in June 1859 by stringing a rope over the Niagara River Gorge below the falls and easily making his way across. During that summer, he made repeated crossings, each more difficult than the last. The last man to cross the gorge made the journey in 1897, just before a ban was put in place on thrill-seeking at the falls."

Jay still hopes someday he'll walk not over the gorge -- but above the falls themselves. "For me, it is the epitome of skywalking," Jay said. "What I do is an art form, it is not thrill-seeking. To compare me to the people who take barrels over the falls is crazy. Walking on the wire is my life. A hundred years from now, I want someone to look in a book and say, I wish I had seen that or I remember my grandfather talking about that."

"I feel that is what I was put here for -- to walk across Niagara Falls."