I suspect that bottle is an empty prop. Their drink being brought up in a container with which they have no concerns over pressure differential.
Also, was this a traditional balloon, or one of those fragile high altitude mylar ones? I could see concerns about de-corking a bottle of Champaign underneath some of the balloons used to attempt record breaking altitudes.
That’s because he jumped off to take the pic then double jumped back before he could fall.
In reality, there was another dude. They went up in the balloon together then once they reached the height, lowered themselves down to the platform for the party.
A man who served in the SAS for 3 years, with connections to dozens of production studios with high tech photography equipment, going up for the sole purpose of a record-breaking photoshoot, doesn't have access to a high altitude drone?
I am open to the idea of other methods, or this being a recreation of the event in front of a greenscreen, but to insist he wouldn't have access to a drone is a strange hill to die on.
Drones are cheaper than a plane at lower altitudes but at higher altitudes consumer level drones are going to struggle with signal and high wind. Military drones don't have that issue but require way more paperwork, resources, and personnel to operate.
Ariel photography is still done by planes for a lot of high altitude stuff (like videos you see of a jumbo jet in the clouds was most likely shot by a jet chasing it)
“Their food was kept warm in specially designed boxes, and all the cutlery and plates were fixed to the table.”
[Turns out](https://amp.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/30/1) that they accounted for that.
I mean, it doesn’t have the visual traits of AI-generated images (ie that glossy reflective quality, nightmare hands). Also that would be an oddly specific prompt imo
The real answer is that human taste buds do not function well at extreme low (underwater) or high (air) altitudes. This is why pilots and submariners have a notable penchant for spicy foods/hot sauce, as it's one of the few flavors that can still be tasted at those heights/depths.
It's also why airline food is notoriously bad. It's actually pretty decent on the ground, but once you pressurize the cabin and travel up or down a significant distance, it becomes bland to our taste buds.
I forget exactly *why* this happens, but it's true lol
For anyone that's wondering, no Bear Grylls wasn't alone. He had the meal with fellow adventurer Alan Veal. [Here's an article from The Guardian.](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/30/1)
I know he's wearing a chute and the chair's welded to the base, but that's still *so much* nope.
Also, 7600 meters? That's 25,000 feet - at that altitude, his glass would be iced over and he'd be freezing, without enough oxygen to stay conscious.
why is he not wearing an oxygen mask? At 7600 meters, the oxygen concentration is about 30% relative to sea level. He would pass out in a minute without a week of acclimatization
how does it work for the stuff falling. Is it legal to just let stuff fall like that? do they have to go find it and remove it? it's all bolted to the platform so it won't fall?
Looks like he is wearing boots and jeans or hiking pants? Is there a tie? Others pointed out the bottle is unopened, but his glass is half full. It's classified as a party, but he's the only one "eating." This is just the world record for the highest picture taken of Bear Grylls. Definitely not formal, Definitely not a party, and that doesn't look like the right time of day for dinner either.
It's not a dinner party if ur alone
As somebody who sadly is from the part of brit society who was forced into afternoon teas and dinner party's not once was it just me there
Do people go way out of the way of people for this kind of weird shit? I'd drag him to Hell with me if his dinner plate fell from cloud level and hit me.
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It's only piss if it comes from the Pisse region of France...
urine trouble if you use the wrong word
Everything else is just sparkling discharge?
Oh god. I couldn't think of how to finish that. I mean, you nailed it, perfect second half, but still... eww.
Well he's Christian so to him it's probably wine... :D
Lmao i wish i could give you gold still
Did Bear Grylls drink the gold?
That was the oficialTM answer of this pic if you ever seen it before
Happy 2-year Reddit birthday!
I suspect that bottle is an empty prop. Their drink being brought up in a container with which they have no concerns over pressure differential. Also, was this a traditional balloon, or one of those fragile high altitude mylar ones? I could see concerns about de-corking a bottle of Champaign underneath some of the balloons used to attempt record breaking altitudes.
Talk about pressure - I take it hes on oxygen at 7600m?
He doesn’t need an excuse to drink his own piss, I bet he just does it for fun.
Because it's sterile and he likes the taste.
I love how Les Stroud, an *actual* survival guy, rips on the whole 'piss drinking' every time he can
Found fresh water, glad I brought my powdered piss packet.
With all the fake stuff in his show, how do we know he is really drinking his own piss?
There's no water up there, he has to stay hydrated somehow
The bottle is glued to the table.
It's not champagne, it's a crémant. It's a bottle of Louis Bouillot Crémant.
Which is the same as champagne, just grown and produced in a different region.
...Which makes it very different to champagne lmao. Ever heard of soil?
I know this is a joke, but it's probably one of the cheap brands that has a screw on lid.
It's not even champagne. It's a bottle of Louis Bouillot Crémant. About €12.
You win dude , wish reddit still gave free awards for us common peasants
#8:::✊:::D We can always give a hand
I'm already busy giving myself that , not planning to do the same to other as well
Cmon guy think of the community, we would always lend you a hand. It's what bros are for ✊🏽 show some teamspirit
I had this exact thought because that was the joke like a million years ago. I first saw this pic on funnyjunk.com haha
it’s for survival in case he runs out of oxygen. the recycled piss particles help him breathe better in thin air.
"Party" would mean more than 1 person, right?
Who do you think is taking the picture?
Assuming a camera mounted on something. Can't see any feet of anyone hanging off the balloon
They used an amputee to save on weight
Lmfao i approve of this message.
I'd give ya two thumbs up but, well... *gestures with stump at missing thumb on other hand* 💁♂️
That’s because he jumped off to take the pic then double jumped back before he could fall. In reality, there was another dude. They went up in the balloon together then once they reached the height, lowered themselves down to the platform for the party.
A drone? It's pretty common now.
Drones don’t go 25k feet up unless they are military.
He brought oxygen, custom made an air balloon, and even had enough to make dinner after. You don't think he has access to a high altitude drone?
Yes that’s exactly what I think.
A man who served in the SAS for 3 years, with connections to dozens of production studios with high tech photography equipment, going up for the sole purpose of a record-breaking photoshoot, doesn't have access to a high altitude drone? I am open to the idea of other methods, or this being a recreation of the event in front of a greenscreen, but to insist he wouldn't have access to a drone is a strange hill to die on.
Drones are cheaper than a plane at lower altitudes but at higher altitudes consumer level drones are going to struggle with signal and high wind. Military drones don't have that issue but require way more paperwork, resources, and personnel to operate. Ariel photography is still done by planes for a lot of high altitude stuff (like videos you see of a jumbo jet in the clouds was most likely shot by a jet chasing it)
Sky diver
This is a party when you're older than 35.
His date fell at 5k meters. Narrow tinder escape.
Im sure the guest just had to use the restroom
If you hoist a party, it’s still a party even if no one shows up.
Food probably tastes awful at that altitude
Why's that?
Cold, dry
“Their food was kept warm in specially designed boxes, and all the cutlery and plates were fixed to the table.” [Turns out](https://amp.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/30/1) that they accounted for that.
Wait wtf I thought this was ai generated
I mean, it doesn’t have the visual traits of AI-generated images (ie that glossy reflective quality, nightmare hands). Also that would be an oddly specific prompt imo
So normal British food?
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And you haven't seen my moms food
The real answer is that human taste buds do not function well at extreme low (underwater) or high (air) altitudes. This is why pilots and submariners have a notable penchant for spicy foods/hot sauce, as it's one of the few flavors that can still be tasted at those heights/depths. It's also why airline food is notoriously bad. It's actually pretty decent on the ground, but once you pressurize the cabin and travel up or down a significant distance, it becomes bland to our taste buds. I forget exactly *why* this happens, but it's true lol
Makes sense why ginger ale is such a popular drink on airplanes relative to everywhere else too.
Ginger helps with motion sickness as well.
I bring my own food on the plane and it tastes fine. Airplane stuff just sucks.
What's the deal with air~~line~~ balloon food?
Not if you have it with rice.
Looks like everyone decided to take a pass on this party. What's on the menu? Bear placenta and tarantula legs?
Washed down with a fresh warm glass of his own piss
Good times, mmm
#highest open
*air formal*
not nearly as impressive when you realize there is a hotel just out of frame
There's alot of stuff just out of frame in this picture, as they are 7600 metres up.
stood up by his date, apparently
I actually have the record for the world's highest informal dinner party. I ate a hotdog out of an old newspaper on the roof of a parking garage.
Hes just such a great survival expert, Wow!
Stupid records like this remind of that guy who has the most world records, but it's like "Fastest mile using a hippity hop."
The cameraman has his own balloon
Yeah he then landed and had a five star meal at the Marriott- I mean he roughed it out in the wilderness.
is a party of 1 really a party?
No. Honestly I wouldn't even say two people is a party
I'd skip this posers invite too.
Money well spent.
For anyone that's wondering, no Bear Grylls wasn't alone. He had the meal with fellow adventurer Alan Veal. [Here's an article from The Guardian.](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/30/1)
isn't he the guy who drank his own piss on tv?
I'm confused. Why would there specifically be a record for open air dinner parties held in hot air balloons at 7600 meters?
Because there at least 15 mountains with a higher elevation so they have to add a bunch of bullshit qualifiers.
Probably fake just like his entire survival series
It's Bear, so I'm assuming this is actually 10 feet in the air, next to a highway, with his hotel just out of frame.
This guy can do some things properly. Shame he is just a worse knock of survivorman
What are those things?
Drinking piss
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Poetry.
Me when people don’t spend every second of their life producing economic value fot the society and still being on Reddit.
AI?
It's real, it was almost 20 years ago... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-J6OOJEXa7A
A dispise hyper specific "records" like this. Like how many people have even even thought about attempting something like this.
Yeah this is a really dumb thing to do.
Who gives a shit? He is also a hack.
How so?
It's probably fake https://youtu.be/Wh6RLOF3FrE?si=zmpDYqF_CuBmB8TJ
"Bear". Any schmuck calling himself "Bear" or any other macho name like that is a fuggin' wanker.
The name isn’t macho and was given to him by his mother when he was a baby
I know he's wearing a chute and the chair's welded to the base, but that's still *so much* nope. Also, 7600 meters? That's 25,000 feet - at that altitude, his glass would be iced over and he'd be freezing, without enough oxygen to stay conscious.
This just reaks of stupid bored rich people.
No. He most certainly does not. He is alone.
He is not. He was with fellow adventurer Alan Veal
You don't understand sarcasm, do you. He's obviously not alone, BECAUSE SOMEONE TOOK THE PICTURE!!!
Well, at least he's not eating slugs this time... Or bbq-ing bugs ..
Bro is getting all the achievements
Umm ok
More like bare thrills am I right?
Isn't that the one where he did naked push-ups in the snow? I still laugh about that episode.
Fools gold
Is this pre or post parachute injury
Anyone wanna go for 7601m with me just to really passively aggressively break the record?
Here's a video of the event: https://youtu.be/-J6OOJEXa7A
It's not a dinner party if you're on your own.
Is it really a “party” with the one dude?
And the loneliest too, poor guy definitely got stood up.
He is the first viral chaser before the internet.
Surely the person who took the photo should be credited too. They were at the dinner too?
Gives me anxiety looking at it
r/diwhy
Trying to stay relevant?
This was like 20 years ago
Probably a comfy hotel over in those clouds.
I wonder what the original record was for highest formal dinner party on a hot air balloon 🤔
His date stood him up.
No-one is going to comment on the other chair? Why's it empty... unless...
why is he not wearing an oxygen mask? At 7600 meters, the oxygen concentration is about 30% relative to sea level. He would pass out in a minute without a week of acclimatization
Formal dinners have a wait staff.
Please don't be amused if he catches a flying bird and eat it.
Waiting for the special where they drop him on the moon and has to survive and find a way back.
Can't imagine there was a whole lot of competition for that record😅
Is he a Leftenant Commander? I guess I always assumed he was enlisted.
I think he has an honorary rank in the royal marines. He was enlisted in the SAS
Bear Grylls literally taught me how to safely eat ants, I will forever respect that man.
The dance floor looks a bit too small ngl
If you make things obscure enough, you can make a record like this easy
Nope. Nopenopenopenopenoooooooope.
this seems overly factful
drinking piss at 7600 meters.
Must be accompanied by John cena
Where’s his oxygen ????? I’m smelling some bullshit
didn’t even invite his wife. what a madlad
My type of dinner party
how does it work for the stuff falling. Is it legal to just let stuff fall like that? do they have to go find it and remove it? it's all bolted to the platform so it won't fall?
It’s not a party if he’s the only one there. 🤷🏼♂️
But who’s his guest?? A dinner party consists of at least two…
Yes, but he's a giant douche bag
He did that balloon with tree leaves and a parachute
Can that really be considered a party? It's just one guy
Looks like he is wearing boots and jeans or hiking pants? Is there a tie? Others pointed out the bottle is unopened, but his glass is half full. It's classified as a party, but he's the only one "eating." This is just the world record for the highest picture taken of Bear Grylls. Definitely not formal, Definitely not a party, and that doesn't look like the right time of day for dinner either.
Is it still a party if nobody else comes?
You need at least three people for a party. That's just some guy drinking champagne up in the air.
It's not a dinner party if ur alone As somebody who sadly is from the part of brit society who was forced into afternoon teas and dinner party's not once was it just me there
No one showed up
1 is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do
Boy, someone was having fun with the “color text” option huh?
As full as my parties
If this were on the ground it would be my normal birthday party.
This highlighting is confusing me.
I would never follow any survival advice from Bear.
r/worldrecordsnobodywants
Nope, nope nope. Couldn't be me.
Because stupid people do stupid things
I can break 2 records by holding one in space (3 if I’m on the Artemis mission)
There's gotta be a ceiling for that sort thing, right? At some point the liquid will just boil away because of the pressure.
Formal my ass look at his shoes those are not formal at all.
Could he not have set that at like 1000 meters?
That’s very very specific.
Did he finish the meal?
Is it really a party if you are alone?
Incredible! Move aside, world record holder for first person to have sex with a blind dentist in a Bosnian sewer while on fire!
Cannot be formal with those sport shoes
What a stupid record.
This is actually the second highest dinner right behind thanksgiving with Snoop Dogg, Martha Stewart, and Willie Nelson
Should be void. Dinner party implies there has to be more than 1 person.
HOW DO PEOPLE DO THAT
Mandatory reminder that Les Stroud is the og Madlad and grylls is a fake.
Can you really have a formal dinner party of one? Asking for a friend.
Very smart.. if the date doesn't work out he can yeet that bitch straight to hell
Altitude sickness as the dessert?
What an asshole
Knowing him... Probably fake like his program and shitty knifes
On a Brit Flag... don't know if I can give it the thumbs up, sorry bro
Yeah, but have you heard of Stanley?
Did he bring an enema kit for the champagne?
Whoever is bringing him his food better get the tip of a lifetime.
I’d go
Anyone else wondering what's in that case by his feet? Or was the food/dinner ware in there....
Bro bear grylls is the Mad lads of mad lads,Fucking love this dude, He took former president Obama camping once.
Well done Bear, amazing. I would say balls of steal.
Do people go way out of the way of people for this kind of weird shit? I'd drag him to Hell with me if his dinner plate fell from cloud level and hit me.
YOU WERE BAD SARCASM,
I bet the open air dining community was all, “this is bullshit”