Magician David Blaine pulls off high-flying balloon ‘Ascension’ stunt

Daredevil David Blaine performed his latest stunt on Wednesday, ascending nearly 25,000 feet (7,600 metres) into the Arizona sky while hanging from a cluster of jumbo-sized balloons before parachuting safely back to earth.“It’s like magic, it feels like I’m floating in the air,” Blaine said on a radio to his team of aides back on the ground after gently lifting off from a desert airstrip in Page, Arizona, connected to dozens of balloons in an event he called “Ascension”.YouTube said the stunt,…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3100011/magician-david-blaine-pulls-high-flying-balloon