Hot air balloon flies underground – level 2

08-10-2014 15:00

A seventy-year-old Austrian adventurer landed a hot air balloon in a cave 200 metres deep. He was the first man to fly a hot air balloon underground. The flight took about 25 minutes.

The old man’s mission comes exactly ten years after a fellow Austrian jumped down the cave with a parachute.

Difficult words: adventurer (person who enjoys adventure), fellow (somebody from the same country).

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