Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Mission #28: the debrief

Pilots
3,709
Average
2,230 m
6,000 m+
0%

Heaviest ballastName a mountain over 6,000 m tall. 85% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country that borders Afghanistan or China (not those two).

Every accepted answer

1. Name a mountain over 6,000 m tall.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Ama Dablam

Jet Stream (850 m): Shishapangma, Gasherbrum, Broad Peak, Illimani, Muztagh Ata, Kongur

Updraft (600 m): Makalu, Cho Oyu, Manaslu, Nanga Parbat, Dhaulagiri, Chimborazo, Huascaran, Ojos del Salado

Drifter (300 m): Aconcagua, Denali, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Annapurna

Ballast (100 m): Everest, K2

2. Name a landlocked country whose flag has blue on it.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Lesotho, Kosovo, Eswatini

Jet Stream (850 m): Central African Republic, Mongolia, Armenia, Botswana, Moldova

Updraft (600 m): Azerbaijan, Laos, Paraguay, Serbia, Slovakia

Drifter (300 m): Kazakhstan, Chad, Rwanda, South Sudan, Czechia

Decoy (150 m): Luxembourg, Andorra, Liechtenstein, San Marino

Ballast (100 m): Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, Nepal

3. Name a country in Oceania whose flag has no green.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Marshall Islands, Palau

Jet Stream (850 m): Micronesia, Tonga

Updraft (600 m): Samoa, Kiribati

Drifter (300 m): Papua New Guinea, Fiji

Decoy (150 m): Nauru, Tuvalu

Ballast (100 m): Australia, New Zealand

4. Name a country whose capital starts with L.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Slovenia (Capital: Ljubljana), Eswatini (Capital: Lobamba)

Jet Stream (850 m): Togo (Capital: Lomé), Gabon (Capital: Libreville)

Updraft (600 m): Malawi (Capital: Lilongwe), Zambia (Capital: Lusaka), Bolivia (Capital: La Paz)

Drifter (300 m): Portugal (Capital: Lisbon), Angola (Capital: Luanda)

Decoy (150 m): Luxembourg (Capital: Luxembourg)

Ballast (100 m): United Kingdom (Capital: London), Peru (Capital: Lima)

5. Name a country in Eastern Africa with more than 10 million people.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Rwanda, Burundi

Jet Stream (850 m): Somalia, Zimbabwe

Updraft (600 m): Madagascar, Malawi, Zambia

Drifter (300 m): Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique

Ballast (100 m): Kenya, Ethiopia

6. Name a country with a South China Sea coastline (including the Gulf of Thailand).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Brunei

Jet Stream (850 m): Cambodia, Singapore

Updraft (600 m): Thailand, Malaysia

Drifter (300 m): Philippines, Vietnam

Ballast (100 m): China, Indonesia

7. Name a country that borders Afghanistan or China (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Mongolia, Bhutan

Jet Stream (850 m): Tajikistan, Laos, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan

Updraft (600 m): Uzbekistan, Nepal, North Korea, Kazakhstan

Drifter (300 m): Vietnam, Iran, Myanmar

Ballast (100 m): India, Pakistan, Russia

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