SLATE INFORMATION: Get Piccard's Balloon

AUSTRIA: Obergurgl:
EXT/SNOW ON GROUND
Long view of village at bottom of Alps.
Various shots of alpine soldiers at work salvaging hydrogen balloon bag
Soldiers retrieving the gondola of the balloon (a metal globe)
Soldiers rolling globe
Equipment laid out on the snow, including oxygen tank
Two men studying piece of equipment

SLATE: Prof Piccard, bewildered by world's acclaim of his "modest experiment" is science's new hero

Auguste Piccard (in hat) standing with others

Auguste Piccard interview (translated) SOT
- saying trip was success
Background: Hydrogen balloon, inside which Swiss inventor and explorer, August Piccard, webt 10 miles above earth, is salvaged high in the Austrian Alps.
(On May 27, 1931, Piccard and Paul Kipfer became the first men to safely ascend into the stratosphere, riding in a pressurized gondola borne beneath a balloon designed by Piccard. This ascent was the first of many,)

(Hot air balloons / human flight