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Skydive from the StratosphereAltitude: 60,000 ft Your rate of climb has increased to 1,300 ft per minute. Traveling any faster than this in this extreme cold could crack open your balloon, which is only two-thousandths of an inch thick. Climb rate is reduced to 950 ft per minute after you release some of the balloon's helium gas. Continue Escape Through Time | Skydive | Human Response Survivor Stories | Pioneers of Survival | Survival Strategies Resources | Teacher's Guide | Transcripts | Site Map | Escape! Home Editor's Picks | Previous Sites | Join Us/E-mail | TV/Web Schedule About NOVA | Teachers | Site Map | Shop | Jobs | Search | To print PBS Online | NOVA Online | WGBH © | Updated November 2000 |