Description
Season 1: 3 x 60' Season 2: 3 x 60'
Blast! Films for Channel 4
From an icy touchdown in northernmost Canada, to a terrifying cliff-edge landing in the Papuan jungle, pilot Arthur Williams flies into the planet’s most dangerous airstrips – to find out why people want to live at the ends of the earth, and discover how tiny planes are changing lives.
Seven years ago, Royal Marine commando Arthur Williams was paralysed in a car crash. He became a private pilot and has flown all over England. Now he’s determined to take on the world’s most dangerous airstrips, where landing is a matter of life and death.
We visit a tiny Nepalese village where ‘Himalayan Viagra’ has created a new gold-rush, meet a family living the dream on a paradise island in the Pacific, and ranchers in the Australian outback who couldn’t herd their cattle without helicopters.
Exploring a different beautiful landscape each film sees Arthur experience the jaw-dropping lives of people who rely on planes for everything.
Reviews:
"Compellingly likeable guide " (Daily Mail)
"Astute, absorbing " (The Times)