A pilot's memoir, capturing Kelham's experiences first serving as a part of the Rhodesian Military, and later as a United Nation's helicopter pilot, where he served in Somalia, Guatemala, and Mozambique in the 1990's, as well as during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Vertical Lift is the dramatic and inspiring true story of how one man can lose everything, time after time, before eventually achieving freedom, family, home, and success.