Show HIGH UP I 1 fairi diw rim r three adventurous frenchmen men who went up in the bullo balloon oil orl parla paria recently ascend ascended to a height of over feet or nearly five miles according to the two died of suffocation cation catlon and the third became bedame insensible before reaching the extreme altitude re remaining in that condition long a after he regained the eaith earth the cold rarefaction h df the atmosphere so far lar away from the earth being exceeding inimical to human fiuman ilfe life in Clit charles charies tries iries and robert of paris reached an air altitude q 0 feet an fn in 1803 or I 1 I 1 1801 1804 1 bertson hebertson Ho lhoest under the direction of the bub rut sian academy af pf of science attained the altitude of feet in the latter latti year G gay i esac and blot from paris ascended to the height of feet and gay lussac t tho the D b samei same year reached the height of J feet in 1850 Aless rs bixio aud and barral went from froni paris to the height of feet and the sam same e year raghed reached a height nearly equal to the highest attained attain cd by gay lussac loussac amon amod among 0 tile the most remarkable accents ascents are those made by mr james flaisher GI alsher aisher F B R s1 sa S and aud others under the direction 0 of f the british association for the promo tion of science mr glaisner Gl alsher aisher july 17 1802 reached the height of feet on september 5 of the same year mr Gial sher shar and mr coxwell ascended to the height of feet heet or seven milea mr aisher flaisher Gl lost tho the use rills of flits lils limbs at the height of five and a half miles and finally became totally insensible in climbing up to the ring of the balloon to free the valve rope which had become entangled mr Cox wells hands band s become frozen and powerless and he lid dropped down into dufo the car and poured bran brandy dv over them to restore the circulation he then endeavored to approach roach mr Gl alsher aisher but finding F himself imse lf lapsing into insensibility bo he seized the valy valve e rope in his teeth dipped his head downward several times limes and found that he was successful in opening the valve permitting er tho the gas to escape and tte tie the balloon to descend in safety |