Steve Fossett, Adventurer
30,000 feet in balloon
Two-thirds of the way into his fourth attempt to collect the $1 million prize for circumnavigating the globe solo in a helium balloon, adventurer Steve Fossett ran headlong into dark wall of storm clouds over the Coral Sea. Daring as ever, Fossett decided to try sailing his vessel, The Solo Spirit, over the storm. This proved a near-fatal mistake--Fossett failed to clear the front and instead sailed directly into a barrage of hail. Thirty thousand feet in the air, the hail shredded the mylar skin of The Solo Spirit and Fossett's passenger capsule began falling from the sky. To brace for impact, Fossett lay across the bench of the capsule and awaited his fate.
Shockingly, when the remnants of The Solo Spirit splashed down, Fossett found himself totally unhurt. As the capsule filled with water, he scrambled out with a life raft, and was eventually rescued after more than 10 hours at sea.
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