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China fitness KOL warned of explosion risk by using helium balloon to lighten load on hikes

Blogger copies idea of foreign climber but faces warning over tree branch dangers, being blown away in high winds

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A blogger in China who promotes using a helium balloon to lighten his load on hikes has been warned over potential explosion dangers. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
Alice Yanin Shanghai

A fitness influencer in eastern China has trended on social media after he created a “lazy man mountain climbing method” by using a helium balloon to lighten the bag he carried on hikes.

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The Zhejiang-based blogger, surnamed Pu, released a video on Douyin of him climbing a mountain with a big white helium balloon attached to his bag, attracting 200,000 likes, news website NetEase reported.

“I am carrying the bag, but I don’t feel its weight at all because of the balloon,” the blogger said in his video clip.

“I feel something is dragging me upwards. This should be the way most suitable for lazy men to climb mountains.”

Pu said he invented this idea after seeing a foreign blogger use a balloon to lift a bag and make it float in the air.

Pu sets off on a hike with a huge helium-filled balloon floating above his backpack. Photo: SETN
Pu sets off on a hike with a huge helium-filled balloon floating above his backpack. Photo: SETN

Another factor contributing to this novel mountain climbing method is the Hollywood film Up which showed a cluster of balloons raising a house to fly a long distance.

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