Dan built a platform for the camera. Then he rigged it to a weather balloon.

Filling the balloon, until it was ready to release.

And that’s when Dan cut the tether.

The balloon rose, pulling the platform with it.

But the tether was lashed around Dan’s ankle and he was yanked up with the balloon.

Without a knife to cut the line, he was hauled into the sky.

Higher and higher, colder and colder, until the air was too thin to breathe.

Then, the balloon burst, and the platform fell.

Later, someone found the platform, camera, and Dan’s broken corpse.