Donald Walsh and Swiss Scientist Jacques Piccard (son of the bathyscaphe’s inventor, Auguste Piccard). At 24,000 ft. (more than 4½ miles) below the surface, the Trieste touched the greatest ...

Professor Auguste Piccard, ecstatic Swiss voyageur of the stratosphere (TIME, Aug. 29), kidnapped his neighbor’s dog fortnight ago, had all the dog’s teeth pulled. To the astonished neighbor ...

A Swiss pilot called Auguste Piccard pushed his hot air balloon into the stratosphere to a record height of nearly 16,000m. He then crash landed on the remote Gurgler-Ferner glacier, not far from ...

CHENNAI: Ever seen those breathtaking shots on Instagram, of colourful hot air balloons floating over picture-perfect landscapes, and thought, “That looks amazing, do I have to go all the way to ...

Remarkably, the balloon lifted, then landed safely in France, marking the first aerial crossing of the English Channel. The men in the basket were French exhibition balloonist Jean-Pierre ...

The footage shows unassuming revellers at In the Game arcade located in Peabody, Massachusetts, cheering ahead of the balloon drop A New Year's Eve balloon drop went horribly wrong after a Lego ...

Companies like Cappadocia Voyager Balloons and Royal Balloon, which launched in 2008 and 2010 respectively, also tend to be pricier because their pilots are more experienced. Skilled pilots are ...