Climb Your Mountain: Everyday lessons from an extraordinary life

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Paul Sykes, long-time benefactor of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, said: “Sir Ranulph proves with enormous willpower what can be physically achieved. He is a friend and hero to me and I am proud to support his latest endurance challenge. Sir Ranulph is using his pursuit of this landmark achievement to raise vital funds for the charity Marie Curie. The money raised will help Marie Curie provide vital care and support to people living with a terminal illness and their families in the UK. This has all been made possible by sponsorship from long-time benefactor Paul Sykes and TMF Group. Sir Ranulph has also previously climbed Mount Kosciuszko in Australasia, which is included on some lists of each continent’s highest mountains in place of Carstensz Pyramid. There are only 3 of them out of 7 I haven't done, so it's very annoying. I'm sure someone else will complete it soon. " 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.

Frederik van Tuyll, CEO, TMF Group who are sponsoring the Global Reach Challenge said: “Sir Ranulph Fiennes is the world’s greatest living explorer. He has inspired many for generations with his perseverance and dedication, and has pushed himself to the extreme to complete some of the world’s most gruelling and difficult challenges. He has shown that to succeed in remote areas requires not only tremendous ambition but also detailed local knowledge and expertise - so he surrounds himself with a strong team, all experts in their field. TMF Group understands this too, and is excited to be part of the Global Reach Challenge team.” The Polar Medal, awarded by Her Majesty the Queen, is awarded to Ranulph. His wife, Ginnie, wins the Polar Medal in 1987, becoming the first woman to win the award. In the same year The Guinness Book of Records calls Ranulph ‘The World's Greatest Living Explorer’. The Royal Scottish Geographical Society also awards him the Founder’s Medal and the New York Explorers Club awards him a Gold Medal. 1983 Sir Ranulph is halfway to completing his Global Reach Challenge in aid of Marie Curie, having already crossed both polar ice caps, and climbed Mount Everest in Asia, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa and Mount Elbrus in Europe. Marie Curie is the UK’s leading charity for people with any terminal illness.The charity helps people living with a terminal illness and their families make the most of the time they have together by delivering expert hands-on care, emotional support, research and guidance.Ranulph makes his first attempt to climb Mount Everest, getting within 300 metres of the summit. He’s also awarded an Hon Dr from the University of Sheffield. 2004 His team completed the first recorded descent of the notorious avalanche-riven Jorstedalsbre glacier. The peninsula is on the shore in north-west Greenland, in the Qaasuitsap municipality. As a tidewater glacier, the Hayes Peninsula changes in size and shape fairly rapidly, shrinking or enlarging every few decades.

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Taking seven years to plan, this was one of Ranulph Fiennes’ most epic journeys. The team, led by Ranulph, circumnavigated the world on its polar axis, using only surface transport. In total, they covered 52,000 miles over three years. Along with his expedition partner, Charles Burton, Ranulph became the first person to visit both North and South poles travelling only on the surface and to cross the Antarctic and Arctic Oceans. It was such a huge challenge no one has ever repeated the route. Your circulation heads towards your core so if you have ever gotten frost bite before, you are even more likely to get it again. The mountains that you can actually climb when you are in your 70s have to be much lower than the ones you could have climbed before.On standard routes up Everest you trudge along ropes the Sherpas put out and you need two “ascenders” to attach yourself. When you get to a knot in the rope, you put an ascender above the knot before you disengage the one below. So at all times you are connected.