Cautious: As the trucks pull off, Miss Dickey checks everything is in place before she makes her first tentative steps across the rope

A brief wobble on the rope and the stunt woman drops to her knees as she struggles to stay upright

Near miss: With her legs in the air, Miss Dickey swings on the cable desperately trying to keep alive her adrenaline-inducing crossing

She added: 'I'm used to heights, long lines and lines that sway in the wind. But those lines are firmly anchored to cliff-faces.

'Walking a line attached to two moving points is something quite different.'

Peter Pedrero, who normally works with stunts in films such as James Bond, Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean, worked with Faith to create the stunt.

He said: 'And here was I thinking that every imaginable stunt had already been done. The fact is that nobody has ever before walked a line between two moving trucks.