It is possible that Porter was aware of how difficult it would be to follow in his father-in-law's footsteps, for it took some time before he was persuaded to join the company.
Britain has been locking him up or dogging his footsteps for over a decade.
Walkers who follow in the Levellers' footsteps, for example, may have heard of the eloquent colonels Rainsborough and Lilburne.
The Utah race, which drew 550 participants, was staged by a group called Footsteps for Fertility, which said it raised $35,000 for a fertility charity in North Carolina.
But times change and now another audacious man, Nik Wallenda of the famous flying family, wants to walk in Blondin's footsteps, for reality TV.
When it was time to raise a family, he followed in his father's footsteps for the steady salary and insurance.
We're tight, Mom and I, and I've been trying to talk her into following my footsteps for as long as I've been writing books.
So if you hear clunking footsteps, for example, even though there's a heavy teammate nearby, the game is still telling you something: each character – barring Zenyatta, who floats – has a different sound effect for their footsteps.
"The sound of footsteps, for example, would be felt by a specific pattern," said Lennart Neovius, an engineer on the research team.
Scratch up the surface, sow the seed, rake it in and water it, before covering it with something that will discourage thundering footsteps for several weeks.
