Sunday 29 October 2017

I Have Seen People Mimicking The House,

in a film called UP,


 typically they rise into the air a few feet, and that is it, but not so for Tom Morgan, founder member of The Adventurists, an adventure company based in Bristol, England, who offer unusual holidays to those seeking extraordinary experiences, past projects have included, among several others, a rickshaw runs across the Himalayas and a motorbike race across the planet’s largest frozen lake in Russia, every adventure raises money for charity, and in the past 12 years they have raised over £5 million, for their latest fundraising project, the company has taken inspiration from the critically acclaimed 2009 Pixar film UP, tying a lawn chair to 100 balloons and getting a crazy adventurist to sit in it at 8,000 feet above ground,

 "it’s going to be a three-day, long distance, floating adventure under party balloons on a chair… probably the silliest air race," Tom described in a video posted to the company’s Facebook page, but before they could start booking in clients, the idea had to be tested, after two months of planning, Morgan and his team first flew to Botswana for the initial test run, “There’s lots of open space, and it’s in the middle of a continent, so when the wind blows, we won’t land in the sea and die,” Morgan said, however, after a week of failed attempts, he and his team decided to relocate just north of Johannesburg, in South Africa, “The problem was finding a good weather window and it was difficult to protect the balloons as they kept bursting,” Morgan told BBC News, now there's a worry,

eventuality it all went well, “I had to keep my cool and start gradually cutting the balloons,” Tom recalled, “It was a fairly indescribable feeling, wafting across Africa on a cheap camping chair dangling from a load of balloons.” Morgan reached a height of 8,000ft (2,438m) and travelled 25km (15.5 miles) altogether in his two-hour flight, He described the experience as “unbelievably cool”, and also admitted that he felt “somewhere between terrified and elated” as the chair rose into the air, the successful balloon flight means that daredevils will now be able to book similar flights through The Adventurists, so if you’ve ever to experience the iconic balloon flight from UP, you know who to call, now here is a thought before you do call, there was all manner of safety equipment on board, but here is the thing, a parachute works with height, if you are too low it will not deploy but the drop under deployment height will certainly kill you, so to say Tom is brave I guess is a huge understatement, a big well done to him and his team in raising funds for charity.


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