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A Russian Orthodox priest has entered the record books after enduring 11 days of freezing temperatures and ferocious storms to become the fastest person to fly solo around the world in a hot air balloon.
His journey of more than 21,100 miles also took him through a thunder storm in the Antarctic Circle, where temperatures outside the gondola - which measured just two metres high, two metres (6ft, 7ins) long and 1.8 metres (5 feet, 11 inches) wide - fell to minus 50 degrees Celsius.
The gondola heating stopped working on Thursday, so Mr Konyukhov had to thaw his drinking water with the balloon's main hot air burner.
The journey also took him to speeds up to 240 kilometres (150 miles) per hour and heights up to 10,614 metres (34,823 feet) before he released helium to prevent the balloon from continually climbing as its fuel load lightened, his son Oscar Konyukhov said.
Mr Konyukhov aimed to get four hours of sleep a day in naps of 30 or 40 minutes between hours of checking and maintaining equipment and instruments.
But Mr Konyukhov's team had said that landing the balloon could be the most challenging and dangerous part of the journey
Crews in six helicopters were following the 1.6-metric tonne (1.8 tonne) balloon inland to help Mr Konyukhov land somewhere along a 500 kilometre (300-mile) stretch of outback between Northam and the gold mining town of Kalgoorlie.
'We've got to keep him up a bit longer because there's quite a bit of wind on the ground here,' support team member Steve Griffin said ahead of the landing.
'We want to get him a bit further inland where there's a bit more open space and some big paddocks and hopefully get him clear of power lines which are a big concern.
'The balloon is coated with an aluminum foil so we don't want it touching power lines or the whole thing will become live.'
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His journey of more than 21,100 miles also took him through a thunder storm in the Antarctic Circle, where temperatures outside the gondola - which measured just two metres high, two metres (6ft, 7ins) long and 1.8 metres (5 feet, 11 inches) wide - fell to minus 50 degrees Celsius.
The gondola heating stopped working on Thursday, so Mr Konyukhov had to thaw his drinking water with the balloon's main hot air burner.
The journey also took him to speeds up to 240 kilometres (150 miles) per hour and heights up to 10,614 metres (34,823 feet) before he released helium to prevent the balloon from continually climbing as its fuel load lightened, his son Oscar Konyukhov said.
Mr Konyukhov aimed to get four hours of sleep a day in naps of 30 or 40 minutes between hours of checking and maintaining equipment and instruments.
But Mr Konyukhov's team had said that landing the balloon could be the most challenging and dangerous part of the journey
Crews in six helicopters were following the 1.6-metric tonne (1.8 tonne) balloon inland to help Mr Konyukhov land somewhere along a 500 kilometre (300-mile) stretch of outback between Northam and the gold mining town of Kalgoorlie.
'We've got to keep him up a bit longer because there's quite a bit of wind on the ground here,' support team member Steve Griffin said ahead of the landing.
'We want to get him a bit further inland where there's a bit more open space and some big paddocks and hopefully get him clear of power lines which are a big concern.
'The balloon is coated with an aluminum foil so we don't want it touching power lines or the whole thing will become live.'
EDIT to add the vids
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