David Blaine’s ‘Ascension’ Live Stunt Breaks YouTube Record

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live on his YouTube channel, the video shows Blaine floating over the desert in Page, Arizona, piloting 52 helium-filled balloons at an altitude of roughly 8,000 feet.The full clip clocks in at just under three hours on YouTube, and begins with the warning, “This is a research and development flight test demonstration.”Check out the video here:Blaine narrated the experience through his own mic for the duration of Ascension, liaising with a team on the ground as he rose up to 15,000 feet.

David Blaine isn‘t an ordinary magician, along with his amazing card tricks and illusions he’s anchored himself as one of the best endurance stunt performers in history. From being buried alive, frozen alive, electrocuted, shot at, and holding his breath for 17 minutes, it’s hard to imagine something that he wouldn’t try.

YouTube project, , and it featured him flying through the air with the help of 52 helium-filled balloons over the desert in Arizona.

live-streamed on YouTube. (You can recap the action in the video above.)Although he told The Post he only expected to reach 18,000 feet, Blaine actually made it up to 24,900 feet before taking the plunge.In addition to potentially crashing into the ground, Blaine faced hypothermia and hypoxia, a condition that occurs when oxygen becomes scarce to the body.It was a performance 10 years in the making.

David Blaine successfully performed his first live stunt since 2012 titled “Ascension,” which saw him soar high above the Arizona desert propelled by helium-filled balloons. Blaine teamed up with YouTube to fund and live stream the incredibly dangerous stunt.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDavid Blaine, in his first live stunt in nearly eight years, soared above a desert in Arizona to an altitude of 24,900 feet — about 4.7 miles — piloting more than four dozen helium balloons. It’s believed to be the highest that anyone has flown using only a balloon-cluster-based aircraft.The stunt, launched Wednesday from an airport in Page, Ariz., was livestreamed on YouTube, which funded and produced the project.

David Blaine is up to his typical David Blaine insanity but with a Disney-Pixar twist called “Ascension”.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDavid Blaine is hoping to turn the fantasy of the 1956 classic French short film “The Red Balloon” (“Le Ballon Rouge”) into reality.Blaine, a career magician, illusionist and endurance performer, is set to take flight over the desert in Page, Ariz., on Wednesday, Sept. 2 — piloting a cluster of 52 helium-filled balloons.

YouTube Original live event.“As some of you already know, I’m working on the most exciting project of my life, which is called Ascension. The idea is, I want to grab a bunch of balloons and go floating all the way up into the sky until I almost disappear.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDavid Blaine nixed his plan to float over the Hudson River from New Jersey to New York City strapped to a bunch of helium balloons, blaming logistical challenges.Instead, the magician and performer will attempt to perform the stunt — which is being bankrolled by YouTube as an original livestreaming special — more than 2,000 miles away in Arizona.“Because of the complexity of this project, I’m not going forward with my plans to do New York City at this time,”

David Blaine has seen the future.“When [my daughter] was 5, I noticed her taking the coldest showers,” he told The Post of Dessa, 9. “Now she jumps into the freezing ocean ahead of me.