Video will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto playTwo pathfinding odysseys are circling the globe in unconventional carriers. His goal is to break Steve Fossett's solo hot air round-the-world balloon flight of 13 days, set back in 2002. Explorer Fedor Konyukhov is rugged up in a basket dangling beneath a giant helium balloon, floating in the jet stream. The 65-year-old wants to be back in Western Australia, where he left on Tuesday, by the end of next week. We can admire all of them even if they don't succeed.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 15, 2016 16:52 UTC