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There
is
surely
something
divine
in
man
himself
that
he
should
rise
so
superior
to
the
limitations
which
Creation
seemed
to
impose
—
rise
,
too
,
by
such
unselfish
,
heroic
devotion
as
this
air
-
conquest
has
shown
.
Talk
of
human
degeneration
!
When
has
such
a
story
as
this
been
written
in
the
annals
of
our
race
?
"
These
were
the
thoughts
in
my
head
as
I
climbed
that
monstrous
,
inclined
plane
with
the
wind
sometimes
beating
in
my
face
and
sometimes
whistling
behind
my
ears
,
while
the
cloud
-
land
beneath
me
fell
away
to
such
a
distance
that
the
folds
and
hummocks
of
silver
had
all
smoothed
out
into
one
flat
,
shining
plain
.
But
suddenly
I
had
a
horrible
and
unprecedented
experience
.
I
have
known
before
what
it
is
to
be
in
what
our
neighbours
have
called
a
tourbillon
,
but
never
on
such
a
scale
as
this
.
That
huge
,
sweeping
river
of
wind
of
which
I
have
spoken
had
,
as
it
appears
,
whirlpools
within
it
which
were
as
monstrous
as
itself
.
Without
a
moment
’
s
warning
I
was
dragged
suddenly
into
the
heart
of
one
.
I
spun
round
for
a
minute
or
two
with
such
velocity
that
I
almost
lost
my
senses
,
and
then
fell
suddenly
,
left
wing
foremost
,
down
the
vacuum
funnel
in
the
centre
.
I
dropped
like
a
stone
,
and
lost
nearly
a
thousand
feet
.
It
was
only
my
belt
that
kept
me
in
my
seat
,
and
the
shock
and
breathlessness
left
me
hanging
half
-
insensible
over
the
side
of
the
fuselage
.
But
I
am
always
capable
of
a
supreme
effort
—
it
is
my
one
great
merit
as
an
aviator
.
I
was
conscious
that
the
descent
was
slower
.
The
whirlpool
was
a
cone
rather
than
a
funnel
,
and
I
had
come
to
the
apex
.
With
a
terrific
wrench
,
throwing
my
weight
all
to
one
side
,
I
levelled
my
planes
and
brought
her
head
away
from
the
wind
.
In
an
instant
I
had
shot
out
of
the
eddies
and
was
skimming
down
the
sky
.
Then
,
shaken
but
victorious
,
I
turned
her
nose
up
and
began
once
more
my
steady
grind
on
the
upward
spiral
.
I
took
a
large
sweep
to
avoid
the
danger
-
spot
of
the
whirlpool
,
and
soon
I
was
safely
above
it
.
Just
after
one
o
’
clock
I
was
twenty
-
one
thousand
feet
above
the
sea
-
level
.
To
my
great
joy
I
had
topped
the
gale
,
and
with
every
hundred
feet
of
ascent
the
air
grew
stiller
.
On
the
other
hand
,
it
was
very
cold
,
and
I
was
conscious
of
that
peculiar
nausea
which
goes
with
rarefaction
of
the
air
.
For
the
first
time
I
unscrewed
the
mouth
of
my
oxygen
bag
and
took
an
occasional
whiff
of
the
glorious
gas
.
I
could
feel
it
running
like
a
cordial
through
my
veins
,
and
I
was
exhilarated
almost
to
the
point
of
drunkenness
.
I
shouted
and
sang
as
I
soared
upwards
into
the
cold
,
still
outer
world
.
"
It
is
very
clear
to
me
that
the
insensibility
which
came
upon
Glaisher
,
and
in
a
lesser
degree
upon
Coxwell
,
when
,
in
1862
,
they
ascended
in
a
balloon
to
the
height
of
thirty
thousand
feet
,
was
due
to
the
extreme
speed
with
which
a
perpendicular
ascent
is
made
.
Doing
it
at
an
easy
gradient
and
accustoming
oneself
to
the
lessened
barometric
pressure
by
slow
degrees
,
there
are
no
such
dreadful
symptoms
.
At
the
same
great
height
I
found
that
even
without
my
oxygen
inhaler
I
could
breathe
without
undue
distress
.
It
was
bitterly
cold
,
however
,
and
my
thermometer
was
at
zero
,
Fahrenheit
.
At
one
-
thirty
I
was
nearly
seven
miles
above
the
surface
of
the
earth
,
and
still
ascending
steadily
.
I
found
,
however
,
that
the
rarefied
air
was
giving
markedly
less
support
to
my
planes
,
and
that
my
angle
of
ascent
had
to
be
considerably
lowered
in
consequence
.
It
was
already
clear
that
even
with
my
light
weight
and
strong
engine
-
power
there
was
a
point
in
front
of
me
where
I
should
be
held
.
To
make
matters
worse
,
one
of
my
sparking
-
plugs
was
in
trouble
again
and
there
was
intermittent
misfiring
in
the
engine
.
My
heart
was
heavy
with
the
fear
of
failure
.
"
It
was
about
that
time
that
I
had
a
most
extraordinary
experience
.
Something
whizzed
past
me
in
a
trail
of
smoke
and
exploded
with
a
loud
,
hissing
sound
,
sending
forth
a
cloud
of
steam
.
For
the
instant
I
could
not
imagine
what
had
happened
.
Then
I
remembered
that
the
earth
is
for
ever
being
bombarded
by
meteor
stones
,
and
would
be
hardly
inhabitable
were
they
not
in
nearly
every
case
turned
to
vapour
in
the
outer
layers
of
the
atmosphere
.
Here
is
a
new
danger
for
the
high
-
altitude
man
,
for
two
others
passed
me
when
I
was
nearing
the
forty
-
thousand
-
foot
mark
.
I
cannot
doubt
that
at
the
edge
of
the
earth
’
s
envelope
the
risk
would
be
a
very
real
one
.
"
My
barograph
needle
marked
forty
-
one
thousand
three
hundred
when
I
became
aware
that
I
could
go
no
farther
.
Physically
,
the
strain
was
not
as
yet
greater
than
I
could
bear
but
my
machine
had
reached
its
limit
.
The
attenuated
air
gave
no
firm
support
to
the
wings
,
and
the
least
tilt
developed
into
side
-
slip
,
while
she
seemed
sluggish
on
her
controls
.
Possibly
,
had
the
engine
been
at
its
best
,
another
thousand
feet
might
have
been
within
our
capacity
,
but
it
was
still
misfiring
,
and
two
out
of
the
ten
cylinders
appeared
to
be
out
of
action
.
If
I
had
not
already
reached
the
zone
for
which
I
was
searching
then
I
should
never
see
it
upon
this
journey
.
But
was
it
not
possible
that
I
had
attained
it
?
Soaring
in
circles
like
a
monstrous
hawk
upon
the
forty
-
thousand
-
foot
level
I
let
the
monoplane
guide
herself
,
and
with
my
Mannheim
glass
I
made
a
careful
observation
of
my
surroundings
.
The
heavens
were
perfectly
clear
;
there
was
no
indication
of
those
dangers
which
I
had
imagined
.
"
I
have
said
that
I
was
soaring
in
circles
.
It
struck
me
suddenly
that
I
would
do
well
to
take
a
wider
sweep
and
open
up
a
new
airtract
.
If
the
hunter
entered
an
earth
-
jungle
he
would
drive
through
it
if
he
wished
to
find
his
game
.
My
reasoning
had
led
me
to
believe
that
the
air
-
jungle
which
I
had
imagined
lay
somewhere
over
Wiltshire
.
This
should
be
to
the
south
and
west
of
me
.
I
took
my
bearings
from
the
sun
,
for
the
compass
was
hopeless
and
no
trace
of
earth
was
to
be
seen
—
nothing
but
the
distant
,
silver
cloud
-
plain
.
However
,
I
got
my
direction
as
best
I
might
and
kept
her
head
straight
to
the
mark
.
I
reckoned
that
my
petrol
supply
would
not
last
for
more
than
another
hour
or
so
,
but
I
could
afford
to
use
it
to
the
last
drop
,
since
a
single
magnificent
vol
-
plane
could
at
any
time
take
me
to
the
earth
.
"
Suddenly
I
was
aware
of
something
new
.
The
air
in
front
of
me
had
lost
its
crystal
clearness
.
It
was
full
of
long
,
ragged
wisps
of
something
which
I
can
only
compare
to
very
fine
cigarette
smoke
.
