Morgan, who is the founder of The Adventurists, an adventure company based in Bristol, England, is planning to set up the first-ever competitive helium balloon race in Africa.
Image: The Adventurists.
A 38-year-old British adventurer has flown about 2.5 kilometres above Johannesburg attached to 100 helium balloons in a scene reminiscent from Pixar’s much-loved film, Up.
On Monday, Tom Morgan travelled 24 kilometres attached to the balloons, which his team spent two days inflating, after bad weather forced them to move the attempt from Botswana to a location near Johannesburg.
He admitted feeling “somewhere between terrified and elated” as he slowly rose in the air for a period of two hours.