Living Dangerously: The Autobiography of Ranulph Fiennes

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Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Archived from the original on 21 October 2023 . Retrieved 7 August 2016. I can’t think that anybody could be disappointed in a person who chose to confront his vertigo by climbing Everest for charity. And given the rapturous applause and admiration that filled the spectacular Grand Hall at the end of the evening, it was clear that he certainly hadn’t disappointed the audience. What a wonderful night! This, after all, is the man who, while part of the SAS, was so offended by the construction of an ugly concrete dam by 20th Century Fox for the production of their fabled film Doctor Dolittle that he plotted to destroy it and used explosives which he later claimed to have accumulated from leftovers on training exercises. Jardine, Cassandra (16 April 2007). "Of course I am an evil, evil woman". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 7 September 2014 . Retrieved 16 August 2013. Preparation for what came to be called the Transglobe Expedition began in 1972 and occupied much of Fiennes’s and Ginny’s time during the rest of the decade. The trekking team, led by Fiennes and including fellow Britons Charles Burton and Oliver Shepard, had a support crew of some three dozen people, including Ginny. They departed from Greenwich, England, in September 1979, attempting to stay as close as possible to the Greenwich meridian as they journeyed southward over land and water, until they reached the coast of Antarctica in January 1980. They remained there until October, when Fiennes, Burton, and Shepherd departed on snowmobiles for the South Pole, which they reached on December 15. Setting out again after a short time at the American base there, they arrived at the Scott Base on the west coast of Antarctica in mid-January 1981, having made the continental traverse in a record-setting 67 days.

It’s astonishing to learn, given his passion for mountaineering, that Fiennes suffers from vertigo, but if there’s a lesson to be derived from his career, it’s that he has never been interested in admitting defeat. This trait has occasionally cost him dear and he knows the agony of frostbite on these far-flung expeditions. Yet he keeps persevering. Offended by the construction of an ugly concrete dam built in Wiltshire by 20th Century Fox [8] for the production of the 1967 film Doctor Dolittle, Fiennes attempted to destroy the dam but the police foiled the plan. [9] Fiennes had to pay a large fine and he and a co-conspirator were dismissed from the SAS. He was initially posted to another cavalry regiment but was eventually permitted to return to the Royal Scots Greys.

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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.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes heads to Antarctica". Top Gear. 9 January 2013. Archived from the original on 9 January 2015 . Retrieved 9 January 2015. Face to Face: Polar Portraits (2008), The Scott Polar Research Institute with Polarworld, ISBN 978-0-901021-07-6 (with Huw Lewis-Jones, Hugh Brody and Martin Hartley (photographer)). Sir Ranulph Fiennes, (born March 7, 1944, Windsor, Berkshire, England), British adventurer, pioneering polar explorer, and writer, who, among his many exploits, in 1979–82 led the first north-south surface circumnavigation of the world (i.e., along a meridian).Cool, Kenton (2015). One Man's Everest. London: Preface (Penguin Random House). pp.143–162. ISBN 9781848094482. Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt, OBE Authorised Biography". Debrett's. Archived from the original on 15 January 2015 . Retrieved 9 January 2014. Extreme Running (2007), Pavilion Books. ISBN 978-1-86205-756-2 (by Dave Horsley and Kym McConnell, foreword by Ranulph Fiennes). The Elite: The Story of Special Forces – From Ancient Sparta to the War on Terror (2019). ISBN 9781471156618.

Leading names to join students at graduation celebrations". chester.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 5 November 2014 . Retrieved 25 January 2015. My Heroes: Extraordinary Courage, Exceptional People (2011), Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4447-2242-0. Now, he has a new challenge. Live on stage, Sir Ranulph will share stories from his legendary exploits and adventures, telling untold tales of the world’s most extraordinary feats of daring and exploration. Taking us from his magical and mischievous childhood, through school misdemeanours, to his time in the military and beyond, Ran will also reveal for the first time his own personal heroes and the incredible lessons he learnt from them which have informed his hazardous profession. 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.After the war his mother moved the family to South Africa, where he remained until he was 12. While in South Africa he attended Western Province Preparatory School in Newlands, Cape Town. Fiennes then returned to be educated at Sandroyd School, Wiltshire and then at Eton College. The Last Expedition (2012), Vintage Classics. ISBN 978-0-09-956138-5 (by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, new edition introduction by Ranulph Fiennes). Fiennes stood for the Countryside Party in the 2004 European elections in the South West England region – fourth on their list of six. The party received 30,824 votes – insufficient for any of their candidates to be elected. Contrary to some reports, he has never been an official patron of the UK Independence Party. [25] He is also a member of the libertarian pressure group The Freedom Association. [26] In August 2014, Fiennes was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. [27] Media appearances [ edit ]