Carrie Miller has been writing for National Geographic since 1998. The two-time Lowell Thomas Award winner and contributing editor at National Geographic Traveler magazine calls New Zealand home, but in 2018 put everything in storage to travel the world with Chris Taylor and write this book. She has spent her career riding reindeer in Mongolia and diving with Great White Sharks in Australia, among other adventures. She is the author of 100 Dives of a Lifetime, published in 2019 by National Geographic. She lives in Lake Hawea, New Zealand.

Having wanted to be a pilot for as long as he can remember, Chris Taylor gained his private pilot's licence at the age of 17. He joined the Royal Navy whilst studying for a degree in Electrical Engineering and, after serving as a Navigation Officer on numerous ships, went onto to operate Wasp and Lynx helicopters.

After five years instructing, he became a Test Pilot and flew all manner of experimental aircraft for research and development purposes before returning to the Empire Test Pilot's School as a Tutor. Having served at Boscombe Down for ten years he joined the UK Civil Aviation Authority as an aeroplane and rotorcraft test pilot.

With the closure of the CAA's Flight Test Department, he formed Dovetail Aviation Ltd and has continued to test fly a wide variety of aircraft ever since. Chris has flown 400 different kinds of aircraft, is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and is a licensed Category 1 Test Pilot and Flight Test Instructor for both aeroplanes and helicopters, which arguably makes him one of the best qualified and most widely experienced test pilots working today.