Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Today’s Evening Herald (I buy it for the athletics each Thursday!) reports that Irishwoman Pauline Baker has just broken the women’s altitude record for a hot-air balloonist. It says she ascended to 13,500 feet in a harness hanging from a balloon, a dangerous height for a solo ascent, for the record attempt in Northern Italy.

“I was on oxygen from 9,000 feet onwards” said the pilot who had hoped to break the men’s record of 22,00 feet but the weather was too warm.

She holds the most female ballooning world records of 9 and has made a career out of this hobby as she is now Operations Manager of Irish Balloon Flights. Isn’t that just the ultimate dream of any adventurer, to do what you love for a living?

-Aisling-

Qoute is from Evening Herald, Image from my flickr set.