Small planes transform life in Nepal; traveling the short, steep runway at Everest; families risk their lives to harvest Himalayan sex fungus.

A young couple runs an Australian ranch; a family lives on a Coral Sea desert Island; missionaries fly to hard to reach villages on Papua.

Taking a flying boat upriver to the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada; hitching a ride to a Native American community in the far north; gold prospecting by plane.

Arthur Williams flies into Peru, crossing the desert, mountains and jungle, searching for the people living in a country with some of the most extreme landscapes on Earth.

Life is at the mercy of the elements in the South Pacific, where locals deal with a cyclone; a flying doctor makes the rounds, landing on an active volcano.

Arthur Williams flies into Siberia to learn how people survive in such a remote and cold location, and experiences a helicopter crash which results in a long drive on roads of ice.