High-altitude balloons · 2012 – 2017
Launches and journeys
One balloon flight to the edge of space, and the road trips, boat trips and walks that tested the tracking phones before and after it. Each has its GPS track on a map, and every photo and video that survived.
Altitude in
- 5
- Launches and journeys
- 105–115k ft
- Likely balloon peak, estimated
- 10
- Photos
- 41
- Videos
Balloon launch · November 23, 2014
The flight to the edge of space
Hills east of Milpitas, California → Near Glennville, Kern County, California
- 105–115k ft
- likely peak, est.
- 123 mi
- tracked
- 45
- photos and videos
Journey · June 23, 2017
Hill tribes of northern Thailand
Mae Rim, north of Chiang Mai → Chiang Mai
- 2,828 ft
- highest
- 121 mi
- tracked
- 2
- photos and videos
Journey · June 18, 2014
Glen Doll, Scotland
Glen Doll, Angus → Glen Doll, Angus
- 3,179 ft
- highest
- 11 mi
- tracked
- 0
- photos and videos
Journey · July 19, 2013
Tanjung Puting, Borneo
Kumai, Central Kalimantan → Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park
- 358 ft
- highest
- 27 mi
- tracked
- 26 lost
- photos and videos
Journey · December 29, 2012
Highway 375, the Extraterrestrial Highway
Warm Springs, Nevada → Las Vegas, Nevada
- 5,932 ft
- highest
- 289 mi
- tracked
- 0
- photos and videos