Hilton-Barber is the first blind person to fly over the English Channel in a microlight, holds the British duel microlight high-altitude record and has wing-walked on a fully aerobatic 450 HP Boeing Steersman bi-plane.

He has endless feats to his credit, such as being the first blind person to do the solo kamikaze skeleton run down the 5G Olympic bobsleigh track in Lillehammer, Norway, and has also participated in the toughest desert ultra-marathon in the world through Death Valley, California.

Now he is flying a microlight more than halfway around the world from London to Sydney and has to rely on revolutionary speech-output technology. Of course, as is mandatory, a sighted co-pilot accompanies him.

"Brian Milton was with me up to Cyprus and then Richard Meredith-Hardy joined me as my sighted co-pilot," he said.Hilton-Barber also talked about the turbulent weather on his way from London to Muscat.

"We were tossed in the sky like a leaf in a storm over the Saudi desert and snow in Jordan froze us as temperatures dropped to minus 25C ," he said.

The adventurer fears nothing and keeps adding one feat to another to his name. "Life does not count good [or bad] cards, but in playing a poor hand well."