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Fiennes was born in Windsor, Berkshire on 7 March 1944, nearly four months after the death of his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes. [2] Whilst commanding the Royal Scots Greys in Italy Fiennes' father trod on a German anti-personnel S-mine and died of his wounds eleven days later in Naples on 24 November 1943. [3] He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished ...
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has announced his next record-breaking challenge, in which he will be risking life and limb to raise vital funds for the charity, Marie Curie. The intrepid explorer is attempting to complete the Global Reach Challenge and become the first person to have crossed both polar ice caps and have climbed the highest mountain on each continent. To follow his progress over the ...
Jul 8, 2022 · It was the early summer of 1981, and I’d gone to Disneyland in California with Britain’s greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes. Fiennes was at the time halfway ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Sir Ranulph Fiennes (born March 7, 1944, Windsor, Berkshire, England) is a 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). Fiennes inherited the baronetcy at birth, as his father, an army officer, had ...
Mar 27, 2024 · Ranulph Fiennes’s latest book, “Around the World in 80 Years” (Hodder, £25), is out now. His biography of TE Lawrence is published by Penguin and will be out in paperback in July. Prospect Editorial Team. The explorer and author on suppressing his wimpish inner voice—and when the climate scientists’ case became unarguable.
This is the official website of Ran Fiennes, described by The Guinness Book of Records as “the world’s greatest living explorer”. That was back in 1984 since when he has broken many more world records and led many more expeditions to remote regions. This site is your complete resource for all aspects of Sir Ranulph's inspiring and ...
In 2003, only 3½ months after a massive heart attack, 3 day coma and double bypass, Ranulph Fiennes (with Mike Stroud) achieved the first 7x7x7 (Seven marathons in seven consecutive days on all seven continents). March 2005, climbed Everest (Tibet-side) to within 300m of summit raising £2 million for the British Heart Foundations new research MRI scanner. March 2007, Sir Ranulph climbed the ...
General Information. Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes, was born on 7 March 1944 in Windsor, Berkshire. He inherited the baronetcy of Banbury at birth following the death of his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, who served with distinction in the Royal Scots Greys during ...
Oct 22, 2023 · Sir Ranulph reached the summit of Everest on his third attempt in 2008 Liz Scarff/PA. Fiennes, now 79, has climbed Everest three times, reaching the summit on his third attempt, in 2009, when he ...
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE (born 7 March 1944), better known as Ranulph Fiennes, is a British expedition leader and holder of several endurance records. After failing his A-levels at Eton, Sir Ranulph served in the British Army for eight years, including a period in counter-insurgency service while attached to the ...
