Jennifer Murray was born in the US and educated in the UK. She entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1997 as the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in a helicopter, raising over $100,000 for Save the Children. In 2000, Murray and Colin Bodill broke more records by flying around the world in their respective craft faster than anybody else and, in the same year, Murray published, Now Solo. In 2001, Murray and Bodill teamed up and flew the London to Sydney Air Race, setting a new world speed record. The formidable duo teamed up again in 2006 and set a world record for a “continuous” single journey around the world via two poles. This remarkable story is chronicled in Polar First.  Murray has three children and five grandchildren.