Bertrand Piccard
Bertrand Piccard
Bertrand Piccardis a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist. Along with Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe. He is the initiator, chairman, and co-pilot of the first successful round-the-world solar flight...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth1 March 1958
CountrySwitzerland
father ocean adventure
My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
moving feet air
I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
airplane angel
I am with the angels and just completely happy.
airplane done way
The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.
night another-day flight
Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.
beautiful islands desert
A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
habit reacting interest
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
health space quality
Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.
dream believe welcome
Welcome to those who believe in the power of dreams and who would like to join me in my exploration of life.
dream innovation fuel
We know that dreams fuel innovation.
lying adventure may
Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.
night air motor-vehicles
If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible to do the same thing for motor vehicles, heating and air-conditioning systems, and computers. This project voices our conviction that a pioneering spirit with political vision can together change society and bring about an end to fossil fuel dependency.
thinking ideas spirit
The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.
hero fighting thinking
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.