Adventurer becomes first British woman to cross the Atlantic by hydrogen balloon

A British adventurer has crossed the Atlantic Ocean by hydrogen balloon.

Alicia Hempleman-Adams, from Bath, and her teammates Bert Padelt, of New Mexico, and Peter Cuneo, of Pennsylvania, landed in Bastendorf, Luxembourg at 5.58am Coordinated Universal Time (06:58am BST) on Sunday.

The team said Ms Hempleman-Adams, 36, had become only the second woman in history – and the first from Britain – to cross the Atlantic Ocean by gas balloon.

The crossing was made on the Atlantic Explorer, an open-basket gas balloon which launched from Presque Isle, Maine, on Thursday at 6.08am UTC.