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The Independent said that "travelling around the world by balloon does not herald any wonderful technological breakthrough to benefit humankind," and the Sunday Telegraph of London gloated over entrepreneur Richard Branson's failure to achieve this ballooning record after four attempts.
The Age of Melbourne headlined its editorial "Putin: the man who rose without trace," and said, "Public attention no longer focuses primarily on the ailing Mr Yeltsin's erratic policy-making, or even on the widespread corruption, ballooning debt and huge disparities of wealth that have arisen during the over-rapid privatisation of the Russian economy.
Fossett (who's worth only $25 million to $50 million) is equally insouciant: He has driven in the Le Mans 24-Hour Race, raced sled dogs in the Iditarod, completed the Ironman triathlon, run an ultramarathon, and set the ballooning distance and endurance records.
But today ballooning is the pastime of the gentleman adventurer.
(No ballooning story is complete without reference to Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days . So here it is.)