This high-flying dirigible made the first airship flight around the world in 1929
The 
newspapers next morning described how the dirigible barely made it... [DOC] [TLE] LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin - Wikipedia [PAR] LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German-built and -operated, passenger-carrying, 
hydrogen-filled, rigid airship which operated commercially from 1928 to 1937.