Living Dangerously

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More Tales from the Travellers: A Further Collection of Tales by Members of the Travellers Club, M. Tomkinson Publishing. ISBN 978-0-905500-74-4 (with Sir Chris Bonington, Sandy Gall and others). Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ many endeavours have pushed his endurance levels to the very limits, inspiring generations and making him a pioneer of exploration with an unparalleled story to tell. After failing to gain entry into the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Fiennes attended Mons Officer Cadet School. [6] After completing several months' training, on 27 July 1963 he was granted a short service commission in his late father's former regiment, the Royal Scots Greys. He was later seconded to the Special Air Service where he specialised in demolitions. [7]

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. It’s called the Global Reach Challenge and I’m the only person to ever have done it. There are two other people who have nearly done it, a Norwegian and a Belgian, both of whom I am friends with now. But the record I would like to have broken is to cross all the ice caps and climb all seven of the highest mountains. 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, risking life and limb in some of the most ambitious private expeditions ever undertaken. When I was in Dubai recently, they wanted me to go on the World’s Highest Zip Wire and break the record of going 160 mph.

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Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest (2005), Hyperion; reprint edition. ISBN 978-0786888580. Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth (2013), Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-47112-782-3. Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet OBE (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes ( / ˈ r æ n ʌ l f ˈ f aɪ n z/) and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, [a] is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records.

In September 2012 it was announced that Fiennes was to lead the first attempt to cross Antarctica during the southern winter, in aid of the charity Seeing is Believing, an initiative to prevent avoidable blindness. The six-man team was dropped off by ship at Crown Bay in Queen Maud Land in January 2013, and waited until the Southern Hemisphere's autumnal equinox on 21 March 2013 before embarking across the ice shelf. The team would ascend 10,000 feet (3,000m) onto the inland plateau, and head to the South Pole. The intention was for Fiennes and his skiing partner, Dr Mike Stroud, [20] to lead on foot and be followed by two bulldozers dragging industrial sledges. [21]

The 'world's greatest living explorer' talks about his life and adventures.

Killer Elite (2011), Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4447-0792-2 (previously published as The Feather Men). Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic Survival, Birlinn Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84158-077-7 (by Sir Douglas Mawson, foreword by Ranulph Fiennes).

Career [ edit ] Fiennes at the Celebrating Captain Scott's Legacy event in London, 2012 Officer [ edit ]

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Welsh stars join the list of generous celebrities who raise charity funds". Wales Online. 10 January 2011. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022 . Retrieved 31 December 2022. Lady Virginia Fiennes Wife of explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes and first woman to receive the Polar Medal". Herald Scotland. 25 February 2004. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022 . Retrieved 31 December 2022. Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt, OBE Authorised Biography". Debrett's. Archived from the original on 15 January 2015 . Retrieved 9 January 2014. Freeze Frame» Transglobe Expedition 1979-82". freezeframe.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 25 May 2018 . Retrieved 25 May 2018. Fiennes has long been fascinated by the qualities of the rugged explorers from the early part of the 20th century and how they willingly travelled into unknown territory, never knowing whether they were on the verge of a windfall or a catastrophe.