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‘A true Boy’s Own adventure for the modern age’ – Daily Express When a friend told Jules Mountain he'd bought a helicopter in Canada and would need to ship it home to the Channel Islands by container, Jules thought that sounded crazy. Why not just fly it? Actually there were lots of good reasons. The lightweight aircraft had a range of 300 miles, was neither pressurised nor supplied with oxygen, and could fly for just three hours before running out of fuel. Whereas the shortest feasible route was 4,300 miles across the polar ice cap, with stretches across water that would take up to five hours to cross. It sounded impossible for even the most experienced pilot, and Mountain had only been flying helicopters for three years. But he'd never been one to duck a challenge...so he volunteered for the job. Arctic Insanity is the hair-raising story of what happened next, as the madcap adventurer battled extreme cold, zero-visibility whiteouts and near-misses with icebergs - landing along the way in some of the harshest places on earth - in his bid to get the aircraft (and himself) back to Europe in one piece.

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‘A swashbuckling, page-turning, rip-roaring ride across the roof of the world in the company of two astounding amateur adventurers. It's a marvellous story of their airborne exploits and battles against the weather, bureaucracy, COVID restrictions and people like me who'd tell them it couldn't be done’‍ Adrian Bleese, author of Above the Law

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Jules Mountain is a maverick entrepreneur who, having survived an aggressive form of cancer, set himself the task of climbing Everest to prove he was still physically fit. He was at base camp in April 2015 when Nepal suffered its worst earthquake in living memory – an experience he recounted in his book Aftershock. He now advises other businesses and is a motivational speaker. He lives in Guernsey.

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