Jonathan Trappe

Jonathan Trappe tornou-se a primeira pessoa a cruzar os Alpes usando balões de festa inflados com gás hélio como meio de transporte. O homem, de 38 anos, de Raleigh, North Carolina, nos Estados Unidos, levou quase 12 horas para completar a travessia histórica, metade das quais passadas no escuro.

O experiente piloto, que ano passado cruzou o Canal da Inglaterra com esses balões, iniciou sua jornada em Gap, sudeste da França, onde encheu os 54 balões com hélio e decolou no meio da noite, tamando o rumo a oeste, sobre os Alpes Franceses. Jonathan Trappe aparece na outra foto decolando de Gap, no começo de sua travessia dos Alpes com balões de hélio.

Jonathan Trappe has become the first person to cross the Alps using helium-filled balloons as his method of transport. The 38-year-old from Raleigh, North Carolina in the US, took almost 12 hours to make the historic crossing, around half of which was completed in the dark.

The trained pilot, who last year crossed the English Channel using helium-filled balloons, began his journey in Gap, South East France, where he filled 54 balloons with helium and took off into the night, taking a path westward over the French Alps. Jonathan Trappe is pictured taking off from Gap at the start of his Alps crossing using helium-filled balloons