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London - British balloonist and explorer David Hempleman-Adams has completed his most bizarre feat to date - staging the world's highest formal dinner party.
Clad in formal evening wear, Hempleman-Adams, 44, fellow explorer Bear Grylls, 30, and Commander Alan Veal, 34, ascended to a height of 7 395m on June 23 in a balloon above Bath in south-west England.
Grylls and Veal then climbed 12.2m down to a platform with a formally laid dinner table, where they dined on asparagus spears followed by poached salmon and a terrine of summer fruits, all served in specially designed warm boxes.
After a salute to Queen Elizabeth II, the pair parachuted to earth.
"Without doubt, this is the strangest record I have ever attempted," Hempleman-Adams said on Thursday.
"It was a fun stunt but was at the same time very dangerous. There were potentially a lot of things that could have gone wrong.
"The only drawback about the stunt was the other two members of the team ate all the food so there was nothing left when I landed with the balloon."
The trio faced temperatures of -50°C and risked contracting the life-threatening condition of hypoxia, in which the body is starved of oxygen.
Project director Alex Rayner said the stunt had been verified by officials from the Guinness Book of World Records, who used scientific instruments to calculate the height reached.
"It was fantastic to nail that record but it was a dangerous stunt," Grylls told reporters on Thursday.
"The scariest moment was when my oxygen mask slipped off when I was hanging upside down from the table, but we pulled it together in the end."
The previous record for a high-altitude dinner party was held by adventurer Henry Shelford, who staged his event 6 805m up a Tibetan mountain in 2004.
In 1996, Hempleman-Adams became the first Briton to walk solo and unsupported to the South Pole. In 2000 he was the first man to cross the North Pole in a balloon.
Grylls, a former member of Britain's crack military unit the Special Air Service, became one of the youngest climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 22 in 1997.
This has to be like the single most baddass event of the century, seriously.
In other news:
Gay Marriage Legal in Spain
Gay Marriage Legal in Canada (forget about Alberta!!)
Please give me your opinion on any of these subjects, or all of them. :D
London - British balloonist and explorer David Hempleman-Adams has completed his most bizarre feat to date - staging the world's highest formal dinner party.
Clad in formal evening wear, Hempleman-Adams, 44, fellow explorer Bear Grylls, 30, and Commander Alan Veal, 34, ascended to a height of 7 395m on June 23 in a balloon above Bath in south-west England.
Grylls and Veal then climbed 12.2m down to a platform with a formally laid dinner table, where they dined on asparagus spears followed by poached salmon and a terrine of summer fruits, all served in specially designed warm boxes.
After a salute to Queen Elizabeth II, the pair parachuted to earth.
"Without doubt, this is the strangest record I have ever attempted," Hempleman-Adams said on Thursday.
"It was a fun stunt but was at the same time very dangerous. There were potentially a lot of things that could have gone wrong.
"The only drawback about the stunt was the other two members of the team ate all the food so there was nothing left when I landed with the balloon."
The trio faced temperatures of -50°C and risked contracting the life-threatening condition of hypoxia, in which the body is starved of oxygen.
Project director Alex Rayner said the stunt had been verified by officials from the Guinness Book of World Records, who used scientific instruments to calculate the height reached.
"It was fantastic to nail that record but it was a dangerous stunt," Grylls told reporters on Thursday.
"The scariest moment was when my oxygen mask slipped off when I was hanging upside down from the table, but we pulled it together in the end."
The previous record for a high-altitude dinner party was held by adventurer Henry Shelford, who staged his event 6 805m up a Tibetan mountain in 2004.
In 1996, Hempleman-Adams became the first Briton to walk solo and unsupported to the South Pole. In 2000 he was the first man to cross the North Pole in a balloon.
Grylls, a former member of Britain's crack military unit the Special Air Service, became one of the youngest climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 22 in 1997.
This has to be like the single most baddass event of the century, seriously.
In other news:
Gay Marriage Legal in Spain
Gay Marriage Legal in Canada (forget about Alberta!!)
Please give me your opinion on any of these subjects, or all of them. :D