In Canada, Arthur takes a flying boat to the Great Bear Rainforest, before hitching a ride to a Native American community in the far north and trying gold prospecting by plane

Arthur meets a young couple running a Wales-sized Australian ranch, a family living on a Coral Sea desert island, and missionaries flying to villages on Papua that outsiders have only recently reached

Arthur finds out how small planes are changing the way of life in the remotest parts of Nepal, from the short, steep runway at Everest, to families risking death to harvest Himalayan sex fungus