Kanda, who has been air-ballooning for 30 years, set the record of 50 hours and 38 minutes after leaving Calgary in Canada and landing in Jordan in the U.S. state of Montana in 1997. “I will do my best as this is the culmination of my hot-air balloon adventures,” Kanda told cheering fans before his departure north of Tokyo.

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