VIDEO: Hot air balloon explores underground cave
Digital Reporter
Thursday, October 2, 2014, 7:14 PM -
Ivan Trifonov, 70, of Austria recently piloted a hot air balloon into Croatia's Mamet cave, because, why not?
The underground cave is massive, with a depth of more than 200 metres.
"Ivan Trifonov ... was the first man to try, and succeed in flying a hot-air balloon underground," reads the video's YouTube description.
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"This experienced hot-air balloon pilot is already a proud holder of 4 Guinness records, and flying into the Mamet Cave, touching it's bottom and successfully flying out of the Cave is likely to be his fifth record, since no-one has ever done such a thing before. For flying underground Trifonov had to use a hot-air balloon specially designed for this unusual, and probably unrepeatable venture. His balloon was smaller than usual, and the brave pilot set on two gas tanks linked with steel pipes, instead of a basket."
Guinness World Records is in the process of reviewing the footage to determine if the September 18th event qualifies.
Trifonov's other world records are for being the first pilot to steer a balloon over both the Earth's poles, the Mediterranean Sea, Jerusalem, the Great Wall of China and the Moscow Kremlin.
