Mike Vlessides writes about some of the toughest adventurers in the world. He is the author behind Les Stroud’s bestselling Survivorman books, and most recently penned The Ice Pilots: Flying with the Mavericks of the Great White North. Based on the top-rated TV show of the same name, the book follows renegade Buffalo Airways in Yellowknife as they defy the cold and competition using Second World War-era planes to haul vital supplies to remote outposts across northern Canada. Vlessides speaks about the process of writing about such brave characters, what draws him to stories of adventure, and what he discovered about some of the most famous local pilots in North America.

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