Ranulph Fiennes
Ranulph Fiennes
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE, commonly known as RanulphFiennes, is an English explorer and holder of several endurance records. He is also a prolific writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth7 March 1944
attack heart
After my heart attack I thought, is this it?
crying failure failures key learn milk point spilt
There is of course, never any point in crying over spilt milk - the key is to learn from failures and then to keep going.
army weekend night
No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.