Nine Lives: A Memoir of Extreme Ballooning

by King Sprott

Nine Lives recounts personal ballooning experiences such as an open-basket flight to the 39,000-foot level of the Florida stratosphere, burner failure over the Chilean High Andes, balloon flight in the dreaded horizontal mode, burner meltdown at thirty thousand feet, mile-high top-pop, envelope dehiscence at five thousand, shootout in a Florida swamp, and many other daunting mishaps, each of which transported the author into a state of High Anxiety...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489511075
• ISBN13: 9781489511072
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"