VIDEO: British man flies across South Africa on a chair tied to 100 helium balloons!

The daredevil stuntman flew 25km (15.5 miles) and reached as high as 8,000ft (2,438m) suspended from 100 helium balloons, sitting on a camping chair.

By: Trends Desk
New Delhi | October 27, 2017 04:54 PM IST

Tom Morgan flew on a chair with large party balloons tied to it near Johannesburg, South Africa. (Source: The Adventurists and Richard Brandon Cox/via Reuters)

If you’ve watched the Hollywood blockbuster ‘Up’, you may have wondered if it was possible to fly on a balloon. Well, one person has done it for real with just a few slight changes — and we are not even kidding. Using scores of colourful balloons, Tom Morgan from Bristol-based company The Adventurists, flew into the South African skies.

The daredevil stuntman flew 25km (15.5 miles) and reached as high as 8,000ft (2,438m) suspended from 100 helium balloons, sitting on a camping chair. After a series of trial runs in Botswana with many setbacks from strong winds, he finally took a lift-off above Johannesburg.

The video of his exciting journey has gone viral. Depending on this test run, the company plans to host a helium balloon race in 2018. “It was a fairly indescribable feeling, wafting across Africa on a cheap camping chair dangling from a load of balloons,” he told the Mirror, UK.

Watch the video here.