In 2013 a group of friends launched a GoPro on a balloon in Arizona.  This is the story of what happened:

Normally when you send something up in a weather balloon, you expect it to come back down again. The only problem is, what if you lose the ability to track your package… and the terrain it lands in is a virtually endless desert up to 80 kilometres away from your original launch location? Gulp.

Oops.  Let’s find out more and check out the awesome footage in the video on page 2

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