A Swiss Family's Triple Crown.(Piccard family ballooning tradition)

U.S. News & World Report | February 23, 2004| | Copyright

After an hour of watching the sky, the balloonists at the hot-air ballooning festival in Chateau-d'Oex, Switzerland, drink up their coffee; the organizers say the high-altitude winds have let up enough for them to take off. The crews start up the noisy, generator-run fans and the flat colorful balloons slowly expand, then, one by one, rise from the hard-packed snow and drift toward the encircling Alps. It takes only a few people to launch a balloon, so clearly something is up in the vicinity of one silvery balloon, where dozens of people, many wielding cameras and press ...

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