Nine Lives

A memoir of the author's invariably-life-threatening adventures experienced in the process of establishing three different world altitude records in hot air balloons; flying into the stratosphere in an open basket; miraculously surviving the first balloon-crossing of the High Andes; attaining the most prestigious honor in international hot air ballooning--the Diplome Montgolfier; and, in retrospect, demonstrating that a man may indeed have as many "lives" as those ascribed to a cat.