Watch: Two daredevils walk slackline suspended between hot air balloons

Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A pair of German daredevils took a walk across a slackline suspended between two hot air balloons and earned a world record for their stroll at an altitude of 8,202 feet.

Friedi Kühne and Lukas Irmler took to the skies over Riedering and walked across a slackline 8,202 feet over the ground, breaking the Guinness World Record for highest slackline walk in the process.

They broke the previous record of 6,236 feet, which was set in 2021.

"The main attempt of breaking the world record was pretty difficult for me," Irmler, who took the first walk, told Guinness World Records. "The pressure was really high. It was a great relief of pressure, and it was glorious moment."

Kühne then followed in his friend's high-altitude footsteps.

"Watching Lukas struggle on the slackline was also very intimidating for me," Kühne said.

"Not only did the balloons spin the entire time, they also went up and down," he said. "At one point we were walking kind of downhill -- the next minute uphill. The tension of the line was going up and down."

Kühne celebrated the successful record attempt by parachuting off the slackline.