Tight-Rope Walking Between Two Hot-Air Balloons

A filmmaker has created a nailbiting video of a group of daredevils attempting to tightrope walk between two hot-air balloons. Filmmaker Sébastien Montaz-Rosset shot the exploits of a group of French adventurers who call themselves Skyliners as they attempted the death-defying feat. The group strung up a line between two hot-air balloons then launched them high into the skies before attempting to walk across the tightrope.

None of the walkers managed to make it all the way across the line before falling. Many were wearing small cameras on their heads to capture first-person footage of the exhilarating stunt. None of the footage shows the tightrope walkers drifting to the ground on parachutes, but presumably that's what the tiny packs on their backs contain.

While none of the Skyliners were successful in their first hot-air balloon tightroping bid, the crew intend to make another attempt within days. THe hot-air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. The very first untethered balloon was launched from Paris in 1783 by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes.