Record height for a winch launch?

I beg to differ! Last weekend, one of our guys encountered a rope break at 1,000ft (an old splice let go) and not only did he have the audacity to climb away, he also went XC! He broke all the rules commonly known to be associated with winching!

Uli
'AS'

Uli, you can do the same from an aero-tow, just go ask our club tow pilots. Sometimes I get questions from them like "Why are you still hangin' on, what's wrong with you - at 1,600'.

I know that, Herb. I was merely making fun of one of the most used arguments by the winch opponents I have encountered when promoting winch launching in the US. Most of them also knew that certain death awaits you when hooking up your glider to the winch line ....
As far as I know, the current record for the highest winch launch is to FL50 in a K21 flown off of a decommissioned NATO airbase in Belgium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyRlkOgkZho