Whereas with this challenge, flying over icebergs and forests far from civilization, an engine failure might mean death. “It didn’t feel dangerous enough: You could get rescued at any moment. “My previous goal was to trek to the North Pole, but it felt too easy,” says Mountain. It meant his longest leg required pumping fuel mid-flight. He says he took on the challenge when he realized the helicopter’s range was 350 miles and that it could fly only three hours at a time. Mountain was flying the helicopter from Montreal to Guernsey: a nearly 4,000-mile journey that included fuel stops in the frozen wastelands of Northern Canada, Greenland, and Iceland. And then I worked out I had 30 minutes’ worth of fuel remaining.” “It was -14 degrees Celsius and the high altitude meant I was gasping for air. “I had to go over freezing fog at 14,500 feet or ice would build up on the vehicle’s blades,” he says. The British entrepreneur was completing the second leg of his eight-day attempt to become the first person to fly a Bell 505 light helicopter across the Atlantic. It was less than an hour off the coast of Greenland that Jules Mountain began to question his sanity.
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