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Around the World by Private Jet | Vitali Vitaliev

I had four seats at my disposal with enough combined legroom to accomodate a couple of basketball teams. My fifth - smoking - seat was at at the back of the plane, where I would often retreat

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Don’t try this at home | Sally Howard

Forget sky-diving, for a new generation of extreme urban sportsmen the kicks are big and the stakes are high, well at least as high as your roof

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Flight of the Reindeer | Jasper Winn | Finland, other areas of Finland, Levi

"You know about animals...you drive," Senja suggested. Then voiced an underlying fear: "How do we stop the thing if it takes off?"

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Heli-Skiing in India | Arnie Wilson | India, Himachal Pradesh, Manali

Here, high on the Rohtang Pass, the only sound which interrupts the silent reign of the great banks of snow beneath massive peaks in a hauntingly beautiful mountain kingdom is the intrusive clatter of your helicopter

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Heliski in the Land of Fire and Ice | Alf Alderson | Russia, Kamtchatka, Kuriles

It’s impossible not to notice the distinctly minimalist interior of the craft, which makes Ryanair’s offerings seem luxurious. One of the helicopters we used was literally held together in places by string

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Last Exit to Whipsnade | AA Gill | United Kingdom, South East England, Whipsnade

Other men dream of traversing deserts on mopeds, circumnavigating in balloons, punting up the Orinoco or just walking to some pole. But me, I’ve always yearned to visit every brown sign on the M1

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One Heli of a Day: Heli-skiing in British Columbia | Arnie Wilson

When you go heliskiing, a hell of a day is what you expect and what you pay for: run after run of fresh tracks in deep, sometimes steep powder, with the helicopter on call to whisk you back up again like a jet-powered skilift

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Outback Pub Crawl | Graham Reid | Australia, South Australia, Adelaide

There are offers you can’t refuse. And a pub crawl through the Australian Outback - most of it by small plane flying low over this magnificent, scorched landscape - is one of them

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