Now that is crazy! Did you see this?

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I saw footage on the news, but couldn't find a photo online

Blindfolded man walks tightrope between hot air balloons
Press Trust of India
London, August 14



A blindfolded tightrope walker today crossed between two hot air balloons flying 4,000 feet above the ground.
Wearing a parachute for safety, Mike Howard, 38, inched his way along a 19-foot-long pole, in a stunt at the Bristol Balloon fiesta in southwest England.

"When you are blindfolded you can't see how high up you are. I just try to imagine I am three feet above the ground," said Howard, who holds the world record for the highest balloon skywalk at 18,800 feet.

Howard said he now wants to repeat the stunt at 20,000 feet.

"When you are doing it you are concentrating so hard you don't think 'now I'm going to fall.

 

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Found one. And the short story accompanying it.

DAREDEVIL WALKS THE WALK

A blindfolded man has walked a tightrope between two hot air balloons 4,000ft above the ground in the first stunt of its kind.


Mike Howard, 38, already holds the world record for the highest balloon tightrope walk at 18,800ft.

The Manchester airline pilot inched his way along the 19ft pole at the four-day Bristol Balloon fiesta.

He claimed it was the first time such a feat had been performed blindfolded.

The stunt was a practice run before he attempts it again at a record-breaking 20,000ft.

As Mr Howard returned to ground level he said the experience was "exhilarating."

He said: "People think hot air ballooning is pretty but very sedate - we like to show that it can be a bit more exciting."

Mr Howard insisted the need to concentrate on balancing meant he had no time for nerves during the three-minute walk.

The daredevil was wearing a parachute in case he fell.