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The highest current world absolute general aviation altitude record for air breathing jet-propelled aircraft is 37.650 kilometres (123,520 ft) set by Aleksandr Vasilyevich Fedotov in a Mikoyan-Gurevich E-266M (MiG-25M) on August 31, 1977.
The Guinness World Record for the world's highest altitude dance party and the world's highest altitude DJ set were performed on Miniglik Sar in July, 2021 at the height of 5,909 metres (19,386ft). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This record was made by local musicians and mountaineers under the banner of Team Khimor, and was supported by HBL as a part of their ...
On October 24, 2014, he made a free-fall jump from the stratosphere, breaking Felix Baumgartner's world record. The jump was from 135,890 feet (41.42 km) and lasted 15 minutes, an altitude record that stands as of 2025. [2] [4] He won the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year in 2015. [5]
The team of college students broke the world record for the highest altitude reached by a rocket launched by amateurs — soaring a whopping 89 miles above the Earth. USC Rocket Propulsion Lab
His descent to Earth lasted 4 minutes and 27 seconds [7] and stretched nearly 26 miles (42 km) with peak speeds exceeding 822 miles per hour (1,323 km/h), [6] setting new world records for the highest free-fall jump and total free-fall distance 123,414 feet (37.617 km; 23.3739 mi). [8]
The team completed the highest ever parachute jump in world history. Led by former Seal Fred Williams and former Navy Seal Admiral Bob Harward, the jump took place at Mount Everest, at a height of ...
Nick Piantanida — flew highest balloon flight prior to Baumgartner: 123,500-foot (37,600 m) in 1966. Project Manhigh — pre-NASA military project that took men in balloons to the middle layers of Earth's stratosphere. Participants set altitude and parachute jump records. Pyotr Dolgov — died in 1962 carrying out a high-altitude jump
A Nepalese teenager has become the youngest person to summit the world’s 14 highest peaks. Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, reached the top of 8,027-meter Shishapangma at 6:05 local time on Wednesday ...