Illusionist David Blaine soars above desert holding helium balloons l GMA

The famous illusionist held onto 52 giant helium-filled balloons to fly over four miles above the Arizona desert and then parachuted down for his first live stunt in years.
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[@jpjordan90]

He isn't really an illusionist, he does everything for real!

[@magicjim1]

Not everything

[@atlas6533]

Jim Munsey What hasn’t he?

[@jayh9529]

jpjordan90 it's a big green screen

[@hashermcbudz]

@@atlas6533 there tons of evidence of all the stuff he faked. That one time he escaped threw a building before demolition, was all fake and prerecorded

[@Crazyoldman84]

Or does he?

[@ajantha1484]

David is the type of guy to do something dangerous like this and casually go, *I want to do that again* ...

[@jameconradi8269]

More like Tony Ferguson 😉

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

Not as dangerous at it might appear. Now had he emulated the guy that went up in a party balloon-powered deckchair with no oxygen, no parachute, no safety harness while pretending to be simply holding the balloon in his hand, no two-year training and two-way comms and huge ground crew, I'd be impressed. As it is, just looks like a rich guy indulging himself and having fun.

[@Infinite_exhilaration]

NoneOfYour Beeswax know what would be more impressive, if he just jumped off a 20 story building... the man isn’t trying to kill himself 🤦🏻‍♂️ do you think you could do better?

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

@@Infinite_exhilaration I could certainly do as well, given the same resources. Your opening sentence is a non sequitur btw.

[@filthycasual8580]

@@noneofyourbeeswax01 Good thing nobody cares about your opinion lol

[@jasonwong7140]

Elon Musk: I will build a rocket to reach the stars David Blaine: hold my balloons

[@Outtathedepths]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@essbee387]

Underrated comment!!

[@JayWheeels]

Lmao 😂 this is the best comment

[@DANGJOS]

I'm betting he purposely chose 52 balloons for the number of cards in a deck.

[@radicallybean]

Maybe that’s why some of them have more helium than others.

[@DANGJOS]

@@radicallybean Yeah exactly

[@BatMan-xr8gg]

Nope, to do with what they carried. The big ones carry 15 lbs and the little ones 2 lbs. So the 52 Balloons were required to lift him and all the Equipment.

[@ToneLone69]

@@BatMan-xr8gg crazy how that, plus there being 52 cards in a deck, equals David Blaine in the middle

[@BatMan-xr8gg]

@@ToneLone69 Well as a normal person, I would say coincidence. But you can think whatever you want as that is your right. Cheers

[@DennisJohnsonDrummer]

I can't even climb above three steps on my 6 foot ladder without getting shaky! Our family watched this event and man what breath taker!

[@justinbender6281]

This isn't that impressive the guy from the movie UP did it with a house

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

Even more impressive, some whacko without the PR machine of David Blaine tied balloons to his deckchair and went up for a ride. And he _did_ get down by shooting balloons with a rifle he'd brought along for that purpose! No oxygen, no safely harness, no years of training and no huge back-up crew. That's the real deal.

[@radicallybean]

Bruh 💀

[@radicallybean]

NoneOfYour Beeswax you did not have to add to this 💀

[@rushilori6114]

Fax

[@samt7162]

Brandon Diaz I stg😭 bra took da joke wayy too literal no one cares

[@patriotprince9358]

This what it means when they say “living life to the fullest”

[@kyledineen1423]

Great work. Missed it I was working. Bet it was so cool!

[@zygotepeyote]

I watched it live on KZbin and it was awesome! David was not holding the helium balloons he was tethered to them with a harness which he manually disconnected from and parachuted to ground.

[@tdmccreerymccreery2907]

Simply stunning!!!

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Simply bullsh!t...

[@radicallybean]

Igor Schmidlapp how so? Did you watch the livestream? It’s pretty hard to not only fake him going up but also sky diving down.

[@TheCannabisConjuror]

He DID grab the balloons and go up without a parachute on. He put the parachute on in mid-air, after he ascended.

[@radicallybean]

Yep. He wanted to keep the illusion of a man holding balloons and just floating up into the sky for a bit.

[@jackhowald9078]

wow a stunt where he doesn’t have to go to the hospital at the end

[@radicallybean]

💀

[@chriss3842]

Amazing!!

[@Sawlon]

Watched it live. So cool!

[@eopal-uk265]

FAKE ARM

[@angelabaker2649]

Happy to have David blain back in the saddle. So glad his new stunt came out safe and very cool. Great and fun for his daughter Desa.

[@ajantha1484]

This man took UP to a next *level*

[@theresadasilva7953]

No he was not. What happens to all those balloons where do they end up? In the sea to choke some poor sea mammals.

[@mykevin1122]

@@theresadasilva7953 There's no sea anywhere close to where he was. The only animals the ballons are affecting are...nobody.

[@theresadasilva7953]

Want bet

[@X-Warrior.1119]

that's a problem... he did not use a house...???!...

[@thedukeconiosantiago9180]

@@theresadasilva7953 yeah no stop acting like that

[@pattysaluti2268]

AWESOME

[@macmactorre1864]

Amazing

[@michellec.4994]

This guy is awesome!!!!

[@adamfawaz8852]

I showed my two year old and she said look David Balloon 🤣🤣 cool new well earned name for him 👏🏽👍🏼😃

[@purpleheadedmonster8735]

He is the baloon guy from now😂😂

[@judwin21]

Increible...

[@bmichael1165]

The kid attached to the kite was more impressive.

[@mobamba5321]

@Rationality lies

[@yeetwchybaban]

Hmm

[@bigsmerdo]

@Rationality lmfao

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

@Rationality I'm calling BS on that.

[@pattysaluti2268]

That WAs omg. LUCKY

[@gugunhermawan4279]

Best Magician i have ever seen

[@goaster187]

He was very securely tethered to those balloons. He would of never fell. Before he did this he was more worried about floating too high and passing out and floating even higher and freezing and dying. But he and his team did a lot of work on this.

[@w5monkey]

Allot of work went into that stunt, bravo!

[@SwrveYT]

News: “he hits cruising altitude” Also news: “24,900 feet”

[@selisbasjin792]

Yes 👍 awesome

[@dexterbernard2701]

Its taken from the all-time favorite childhood movie "The Red Balloon".

[@radicallybean]

Ok

[@irantrindade79]

Grande acontecimento, poluindo a atmosfera

[@radicallybean]

Illusionist? Don’t call him that NOW. this is anything but illusion.

[@mattiejackson4615]

An angel.😍😉

[@jennyroderick5578]

Pretty cool

[@EJAZenarosa]

Wow

[@klipsfilmsmelbourne]

1:07 that was cut from the final film

[@patriciaswanson8463]

Crazy

[@richardperry4379]

Godspeed!

[@melissaandreolas500]

Whoa

[@fresnozoobafoon2000]

Dope af

[@ckaz007]

What a great stunt to honor Eric the Midget, who was originally going to "Fly with Balloons". Well done Blaine.

[@zaitraa]

technically he dedicated the event to his daughter, but i see what you’re going with.

[@zachfree6126]

Amazing stuff, thank you, David. ❤

[@martinmathieu6098]

Its boring

[@justdeeeyyy7254]

Oohhh my god ...this is absolutely incredible 🔥🔥👐👐

[@MATTBARNZ]

Everyone has to remember Lawn Chair Larry. He's the 1st to do this. RIP LCL 👍

[@yolandam4803]

NICE 👍🏾

[@fl0wbee]

Who got the chills just watching this?

[@SIMDICK]

Nice illusion

[@alammd.samsul8424]

good evenning ...amd.

[@kamikazekid94]

He’s aging well and I always enjoy his stunts good job David

[@clarkslain3106]

Ok that landing was sick

[@dianavences3765]

When did it happen ?

[@traywaybby]

I’ve always wanted to do this...

[@scubasteve7303]

Howard Stern wanted to fly Eric The Midget with balloons back in the day. “Fly me with balloons...!”

[@coletanner5193]

So a man takes balloons real high(and makes it look like he's holding on for dear life until you see him use both hands)..then parachute glides down.. that is almost as amazing as the 1st hot air balloon ascent 237 years ago in 1783!

[@BurningUp99]

You obviously haven't been paying attention he never claimed it was the hardest thing ever done he had special reasons for wanting to do this and it's still way harder to do than you think

[@neutronpixie6106]

25 years from now- "Daddy, why can't I get an MRI?" "Some asshole wasted all the helium."

[@degosiejani2774]

That ass hole was NASA

[@vibe3063]

Feel like a old person watching the news lol.

[@david_ga8490]

Profile pic sauce?

[@willrussell01]

He should’ve taken that balloon flight to the edge of the moon and go fishing 🎣 😂

[@coloradobriggz]

Magician turned daredevil stunt man! Nice work david!

[@genxer6928]

Majick trickery sorcery is sin Abomination Repent

[@potzysk2]

I wanted him to come down by shooting a couple of the balloons. Just enough to make him go down slowly.

[@michaelmato3706]

He has a child now! He can't just be doing crap like that anymore... People forget that he was using balloons! If they pop before he can get a good altitude then he is done for! Also, being inside a plane and looking out of the plane is one thing and then there hanging on some balloons with weather changing and oxygen deprivation! And he has a kid! C'mon that enough.

[@scottysatpanalysis]

Michael Mato are you mad at a magician?

[@bakedmuffinman]

This guy literally said "this feat wasnt nearly as easy as just grabbing balloons and floating off into the sky"

[@zachya6490]

It wasn't lol. Did you watch the 3 hour film? I thought that too before I watched it.

[@radicallybean]

Because it really wasn’t LOL. If you saw the livestream you would’ve seen IN DETAIL just how much had to go into this to make it happen.

[@sicknificantfgc7633]

Lol I mean it is just as easy as grabbing a balloon and floating into the sky; it just turns out that is so easy after all

[@zachya6490]

@@sicknificantfgc7633 nope

[@sicknificantfgc7633]

@@zachya6490 yep

[@AmbientWalking]

I love this image of a man floating up to the sky.

[@pippipster6767]

And I would love it even more if he just kept going up and up and up 🌒 🤣

[@radicallybean]

That’s the whole point :)

[@radicallybean]

Pip Pipster he’d eventually freeze and either pass out or something.

[@MarkUs00]

I'm trying to close the NEW THIS MORNING tag then realized it's not an ad, Am I that too irritated with pop-up ads?

[@jerememe2471]

And now my hero literally flies, Fuck yeah DB

[@dank_assassin9416]

I was just wondering yesterday what happened to him

[@billshepherd9957]

That is awesome I had the same idea 2 months ago

[@Teag_Brohman15]

maybe David Blaine is spending his vacation at Paradise Falls

[@pokechill3219]

Team rocket after every episode be like

[@mattiejackson4615]

😍

[@DANGJOS]

1:16 No, he didn't go to the stratosphere.

[@dansv1]

Correct. The bottom of the stratosphere is around 10 km (6.2 miles or about 33,000 feet)

[@ALEXANDER0148]

He also didn’t hold on to the balloons really

[@marylinarrieta906]

Really fantastic! w9rthevery minute. David rocks!

[@three11creatures]

Next up on “The Golden Age of Ballooning”

[@JCRupinta]

The was very scary stunt... Keep it up sir but be careful

[@PRG013]

Holding on? He was attached by a cable. You can see him unlatch it before he parachuted back.

[@michaelwells4241]

Media gettig things wrong as usual

[@draeetutorCDO]

@ thats what u think lol

[@amandamate9117]

that was probably the only "illusion" in this "trick"

[@robbanks4356]

@@amandamate9117 and it really was not an illusion because you can see his brace/harness system as he was getting connected to the balloons.

[@ekids.bassment]

@@amandamate9117 If that's what you think, you probably felt for every single trick in the book. Dude has everything, even oxygen. Even when he holds his breath for x 17 minutes.. it's a trick.

[@geopioneergsxr5357]

He tried to make it look like he was just hanging on, but then had to unhook himself to fall.

[@b4ckwoodb4by]

Now that’s crazy I work at part city and some literally asked me a week ago how many balloons would you need to float ahah that’s funny That was HARD AF tho

[@Honeypepper.]

*UP*

[@ahgasans8547]

**airplane passes by** **sees him** **looks away** **looks back** WA-

[@amandamate9117]

what was the illusion?

[@notsocluelessretrogamer6889]

my thoughts... what happened to the camera thats attached to the balloon?🤔

[@lokivanni2500]

This man is the original DreamWorks mascot

[@gambinoitaintova7664]

BEST ILLUSIONIST OF ALL TIME HAND'S DOWN!!!! RESPECT TO DAVID BLAINE

[@eopal-uk265]

FAKE ARM

[@Alwaysstayreal99]

Imagine tripping on shrooms while doing this 🤯

[@EASFromTheWest]

fuck no dude that sounds scary as shit

[@carl8962]

...and thats how you get to South America!!!

[@jeffburnham6611]

The real illusion was he wasn't really there, he was just sitting back in the hangar sipping coffee lol.

[@cashboymusic245]

Mad Lad

[@jll9697]

😎🎈🎈🎈

[@spider-man6947]

David Blaine is the man ❗❗❗ #Spidey 🕷🕸

[@kabultearoom1498]

ive had anxiety walking into Walmart and this MF flying over the desert with balloons and shit 😂

[@zaiah9252]

Looks like Pixar’s up is somewhat a reality

[@cairoumezurike2863]

A turtle gon choke on one of those balloons🎈🐢

[@gangapatlanagaraj8063]

That's how you can escape from jail premises

[@fathimanazana6591]

David Blaine: Flies with 50 helium balloons. MrBeast: Hold my beer

[@michaelwells4241]

Awsome f.cking awsome

[@13lilSilencer]

that’s not very impressive he just attached himself to balloons... It would be more impressive if it was an endurance stunt where he was physically holding onto them until he got to the right height. But still David he’s amazing

[@Lola-kd9bn]

I mean, don't you think that the adrenaline could knock u out tho?

[@BurningUp99]

At a high altitude he has to worry about blacking out

[@mordekaykashengula9508]

This is something I can do if I have been made ready. Maybe go higher I got ambition

[@rafathchowdury1968]

Imagine he landed back to earth but cutting each ballon that would have been so sick

[@jdlcdn]

What happens to the balloons?

[@Moonflower6]

he was watching up when he got the idea.

[@hoosiercrypto9955]

Beast 😋

[@charliediaz2877]

...so what was the stunt?

[@nGUNNARp]

a freefall for a minute straight boggles my mind...also not to take away from this feat...but cmon you gotta do it again but for the descent just pop one balloon at a time until you start dropping

[@DM-kl4em]

That was actually done in the 1990s by a guy the press dubbed "Lawn Chair Larry". The trouble is that a parachute can be steered during descent, while balloons just go wherever the wind takes you. Lawn Chair Larry almost got electrocuted by power lines on the way down, and was so traumatized by the experience that he committed suicide a few years later.