LeeE wrote: > Little to do with flying but if speed is life, and altitude is > life-insurance (old joke), last respects to Edmund Hillary, and > belated last respects to Tenzing Norgay, for being the first people > to get to that altitude by foot. If you want a flying altitude record, check out Eva "Birdy" Wisnierska, a (the?) German hang glider champion. During a competition, she got sucked into a thunderstorm and was lifted to, I believe, 426xx feet, and SURVIVED. She trimmed her glider to turn away from the cell and descend when she realized she couldn't get out of the updraft and was going to lose conciousness. About 10 minutes later she was back at 20xxx feet and came to, and put the glider into a steeper descent to get back to warmer altitudes. She had to have skin grafts on her nose and one hand due to frostbite, but didn't lose anything. Her portable GPS recorded the whole flight.
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