Part 3: Join me as I chase two aeronauts across Europe in their quest to champion the skies and build the world's largest hydrogen balloon!
 
Visual augmentation: an animated track of the race can be found here. (We are the red team, Swiss 2 ). And photos from launch field and race can be found here. 

Part 2: In this episode, come on a balloon flight with some wacky Swiss balloonists and me! Visual accompaniment for this episode can be found in an article I wrote for Atlas Obscura, on the Instagram page of Balloonist Laurent Sciboz, and in the print journal Lodestars Anthology, Switzerland. 


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This week three years ago, I was flying balloons across France. Follow the next three episodes of Telling to hear the story!

Part 1: A young boy in Switzerland discovers an adventure story so large that it alters the course of his life. Follow his journey from the stacks of a small library into the stratosphere. Visual accompaniment for this narrative can be found at: https://www.instagram.com/balloonist_laurent_sciboz/


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We go once more to Spain to scale la Montaña de Monserrat with a shadowy and mysterious warden named Harri. As usual, there's drama in the rear-view mirror, trouble on the horizon, and a goat. 

Armchair travellers! In this month's episode of "Telling", we go to Spain to herd baby goats...

This month...just in time for Halloween… the darkest ghost story I’ve ever written. Inspired by these versus from Pablo Neruda’s poem "October Fullness".  

A Borrowing of Bones

“Nobody keeps any of what he has, 

and life is only a borrowing of bones.”  

NERUDA, “Pleno octubre”