Falling Upwards
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What’s it about?
A gripping history of ballooning, revealing how fragile human souls risked everything to ascend into an alien element, forever changing our view of the earth and ourselves.
You’ll learn
- How ballooning shattered humanity's ancient contract with the sky
- The paradox of liberation through absolute submission to the wind
- Why the balloon became a laboratory for scientific discovery
- The tragic courage of aeronauts who fell upwards into the infinite