He didn't pay a sherpa to carry him, he sponsored a slate of new technological inventions http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/science/alan-eustace-jumps-from-str

He didn't pay a sherpa to carry him, he sponsored a slate of new technological inventions http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/science/alan-eustace-jumps-from-stratosphere-breaking-felix-baumgartners-world-record.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/science/alan-eustace-jumps... >>> Mr. Eustace said that his technical team designed and redesigned many of the components of his parachute and life-support system during the three-year development phase. ... Mr. Eustace was carried aloft without the aid of the sophisticated capsule used by Mr. Baumgartner or millions of dollars in sponsorship money. Instead, Mr. Eustace planned his jump in the utmost secrecy, working for almost three years with a small group of technologists skilled in spacesuit design, life-support systems, and parachute and balloon technology. <<<