David Blaine floats over Arizona in a record-breaking stunt with the same David Mbo-sized balloons.
Daredevil David Blaine unveiled his latest stunt on Wednesday, hanging from a cluster of jumbo-sized balloons safely before parachuting to Earth, about 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) into the Arizona sky.
“It’s like magic, it feels like I’m floating in the air,” Blaine said as he gently lifted from the desert airstrip in Page, Arizona, back to the ground with a team of his assistants, attached to dozens of balloons. An event called “Ascension”. The stunt, which he saw in a living dream, has set a new record as the most-viewed YouTube Originals live event with over 770,000 viewers so far, YouTube said. Blaine slowly lowered his weight to increase his chin, donned a mid-flight parachute and strapped on an oxygen mask approaching 24,900 feet, the altitude where most commercial aircraft travel. Blalan, 47, has a high history and high-profile dangerous feats.
His stunts include holding himself in a fish bowl, trapping himself in a two-day ice block in Times Square, and standing freely on a thin, tall pillar for 35 hours in New York City. Wednesday’s stunt lasted about 30 minutes.
Blaine freed himself from the balloon cluster and flew until December 30 before deploying a parachute to slow down his descent. “Wow, that was awesome,” Blaine came to his radio while Bho was standing back on the ground.
Blaine said he trained for the event for two years, including becoming a licensed pilot.
It was his first live broadcast stunt since 2012.
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