"You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight." --book jacket

Conquest of Everest: Documentary about the 1953 expedition to Mount Everest. The Amundsen polar flight: In 1925, Roald Amundsen, the first person to reach the South Pole, attempted to reach the North Pole by airplane. He succeeded on the Amundsen-Ellsworth Expedition in 1926.