A fatal helicopter crash – Summiting Mt Everest – Kiteskiing across Antarctica – swept by an avalanche into a deep crevasse – Trapped and starving in a Papuan mine – A broken mast in the Southern Ocean. This list of near death experiences is longer than he’d expected . . .

Mark Sedon has experienced more highs, thrills, dangers and accidents than most of us. The dangers have been life-threatening, the rewards often sublime and lifechanging.

This book is both an absorbing read and a challenge: to every one of us to live life to the full and take risks within reason. Although we don’t have to ski off the top of a mountain like Mark Sedon.