For a chap who gets vertigo when he climbs a ladder at home, Steve Campbell doesn't have a problem releasing the tether on his hot air balloon and surrendering himself to the vagaries of the atmosphere over the ACT.
"It's an odd thing, isn't it?" the former Virgin Airlines flight attendant said with a broad smile as he joined dozens of other pilots in the pre-dawn light for the opening of Canberra's annual balloon festival.
