Saturday, January 13, 2007

Hot Air Record Broken

Alberta was the place chosen to break a world record for hot air ballooning. The new record holder must have taken into account that Stephane Dion would be in the province at the time, providing plenty of the required hot air, pretty much guarantying a new record.

On Friday, Hempleman-Adams set out in a hot-air balloon with an open wicker basket near Red Deer, Alta., and climbed to 9,906 metres.

Hempleman-Adams also braved frigid winter weather conditions in Alberta - at the height of his climb the temperature was reportedly -60 C.

The bitter cold Hempleman-Adams endured was caused by the cold reception that Dion received by Albertans, and was not related to climate change.

3 comments:

ABFreedom said...

It was probably all the hot air emanating from the ever so crowded 300 LIEberals not letting the balloon come down. Hempleman-Adams probably turned into ice cubes trying to get the damn thing down.

Candace said...

Isn't it cheating if you start off at higher elevation? And wasn't he getting close to airline elevations?

Some people are just nuts. Like the lady that died from a water-drinking contest. Weird people.

Tim said...

Not sure how they work out those things but guiness confirmed it....Yes he was at the hight that airline travel... and yes people are nuts and weird.... the water thing was too strange... who would have thunk it....