January 2011
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Arctic by Air
(From Long Shot Magazine, Issue One, 2010)
People have been attempting to cross the arctic north in hot air balloons for more then 100 years. The key word here is “attempt.” Ill-fated expeditions over the polar ice cap reach back as far as in 1897, when famed Swedish balloonist S.A. Andrée and his team ran out of hydrogen after only two days of flying. Forced to land the balloon,...