Living Dangerously

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a b "Sir Ranulph Fiennes gets Plymouth University honorary doctorate - BBC News". BBC News. 21 September 2011. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015 . Retrieved 10 August 2015. Both light-hearted and strikingly poignant, Living Dangerously offers a personal journey through Sir Ranulph’s life, spanning his early childhood and school misdemeanours, his army life, the Transglobe Expedition and his current Global Reach Challenge; making him a pioneer of exploration with an unparalleled story to tell. Mad Dogs and Englishmen: An Expedition Round My Family (2010), Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-92504-1. Named by The Guinness Book of Records as “the world’s greatest living explorer”, Sir Ranulph Fiennes has spent his life in pursuit of extreme adventure; inspiring generations and risking life and limb in some of the most ambitious private expeditions ever undertaken.

Originally Fiennes had planned to run the first marathon on King George Island, Antarctica. The second marathon would then have taken place in Santiago, Chile. However, bad weather and aeroplane engine trouble caused him to change his plans, running the South American segment in southern Patagonia first and then hopping to the Falklands as a substitute for the Antarctic leg.Bowring, Hugh (25 February 2013). "Latest News". The Coldest Journey. Archived from the original on 2 April 2013 . Retrieved 16 August 2013. Last August at home, the gutters got full of leaves, and I was too scared so I sent my wife up and I held the ladder. Everest is the most difficult, but I’ve done that. And if, when I’d done Everest, I had done the minor ones, that would have been no problem. It was 2009 and I was in my 60s and quite fit, but when you’re a bit older, things start to go wrong.

Since that controversy, he has become the first person to cross Antarctica by foot, climbed Mount Everest at the age of 65 and gained the title of “World’s Greatest Living Explorer”. Earlier in his life, he was considered for the coveted role of James Bond and made it to the final six contenders, but was eventually rejected by producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli for having “hands too big and a face like a farmer.” I said yes because I didn’t want to be unpopular with the client. I sort of opened my eyes as we left the platform, but I then kept them shut for the rest of the ride.Sir Ranulph Fiennes announces latest challenge | OutdoorsRadar". OutdoorsRadar. 19 July 2016. Archived from the original on 25 May 2018 . Retrieved 25 May 2018. Battersby, Kate (12 February 2015). "Ranulph Fiennes: I don't think I do amazing things". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022 . Retrieved 31 December 2022. Spend an evening in the extraordinary company of Sir Ranulph FiennesOBE - ‘the world’s greatest living explorer', as he goes beyond his record-breaking achievements to explore the man behind the myth. Between 1 and 5 October 2012, and again from 13 to 19 November 2013, Fiennes featured on the Channel 4 game show Countdown as the celebrity guest in 'Dictionary Corner' and provided interludes based on his life stories and explorations. But even the ex-Python star might have balked at regaling us with the extraordinary story of a character called Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.

SPOTLIGHT SERIES 60th ICONS". Guinness World Records. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022 . Retrieved 26 September 2022. In Living Dangerously, Sir Ranulph offers a personal journey through his life, from his early years to the present day. Both light-hearted and strikingly poignant, Living Dangerously spans Sir Ranulph’s childhood and school misdemeanours, his army life and early expeditions, right through the Transglobe Expedition to his current Global Reach Challenge – his goal to become the first person in the world to cross both polar ice caps and climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. Fiennes had to pull out of the Coldest Journey expedition on 25 February 2013 because of frostbite and was evacuated from Antarctica. [22] [23] Author [ edit ] Jinman, Richard (19 February 2019). "Sir Ranulph Fiennes on rivalry, pain and the storage of amputated fingers". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 22 February 2019 . Retrieved 4 August 2021. Killer Elite (2011), Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4447-0792-2 (previously published as The Feather Men).

A PERSONAL JOURNEY

He added: “There is one thing I wish I had tried doing earlier. At the moment, I still hold the world record of being the only person to have crossed the whole of the Antarctica ice cap, the whole of the northern ice cap and to climb the highest mountain. Brew, Simon (2020). "5 real examples of deliberate sabotage on the set of movies". Film Stories. Archived from the original on 14 December 2022 . Retrieved 18 December 2022. Amongst his many record-breaking achievements, he was the first to reach both Poles, the first to cross the Antarctic and Arctic Ocean, and the first to circumnavigate the world along its polar axis.