Transcript (en)

Suddenly a cable broke and up he went with one emotion. Fulfillment. I was on my way. The first casualty, his glasses. They slipped overboard, leading to this radio transmission with his girlfriend. Lord, come down. You've got to come down if you can't see. Come down. I've got my other glasses. I can see perfectly. Don't worry. You copy over. I copy. Are you sure you're okay? There's players up there. We can hear them. Are you okay? I'm in, okay. I'm going through a thin fog layer. Over. My altitude is 1,500 feet. See marine land right now. So you can see marine land, so you're heading toward... Oh, my God, you're going toward the ocean already. Hey, everybody that here says to cut it and get down now. Cut your balloons and come down now. Everyone wants you down now. The balloon reached 16,000 feet, spotted by two astonished airline pilots. But the craft wasn't moving, so after nearly two hours, Walter shot out some balloons with a BB gun and came down fast over Long Beach, the only time he was frightened.