Few explorers have reached the heights, literally and figuratively, that Bertrand Piccard has. He is the quintessential ...

A man who lost control of his hydrogen balloon while harvesting pine nuts in China has been found and rescued – after landing in a forest two days later and more than 300 kilometers (186 miles ...

They’re more concerned about charting a course that will keep them out of bad weather and give their hydrogen-filled balloons a path to victory. There are no stops to refuel or to pick up extra ...

A bid to cross the Atlantic for the first time in an open basket hydrogen balloon has been scuppered by the weather seven hours after launch. British explorer Sir David Hempleman-Adams ...

Giang Pham, 33, was at a restaurant in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi on February 14, preparing to blow out the candles on her birthday cake when the hydrogen-filled balloons she was holding ...