He is a direct descendant of one of the oldest artistic families in Germany, the legendary Zugspitze tightrope artists.
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The name was given to the Traber family show after their spectacular performance in 1952, after their 2964-meter-high performance on the Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany.
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1999: Re-enacted the feat of his ancestors as a culmination of his previous work, crossing the Zugspitze with a bicycle on a 12 mm wire rope 600 meters high.
Travelling from place to place about West Germany, Meister gathers an odd cast of friends, and winds up alone on the Zugspitze.
The modern Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car has a top station opposite the one of the German Eibsee Cable Car system.