The global engineer

A few yeArs ago, I wrote a story about a British national hero. His name was Dave Mill, a 34-year-old scotsman who was making his third attempt to be the first man to go solo and unaided from Canada to the North Pole. He failed. But, thankfully, he was saved. That was because his ´unaided´ attempt wasn´t so unaided after all. Although Mill was heralded as the hero, it??s my belief that the title truly belonged to someone else. The pilot of the small ski-plane that landed on a 320m ice floe, 300km from the Pole to pick up the stranded adventurer was the unsung, unnamed hero of this sorry traveller??s tale.