The First Experiments about the Effects of High Altitude; Balloonists Travel into the Perils of the Upper Regions
Though altitude sickness was also known to mountaineers, it was the balloonists who had traveled the highest and experienced the perils of the upper atmosphere. In fact, James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell had barely made it back alive after their balloon had soared to 36,000 feet on September 5, 1862. Missionaries trekking around in the […]
