The World’s Greatest Living Explorer, who has led more than twenty expeditions to the remotest regions of the world. He has climbed Mt Everest, run 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents and was the first man to cross both the polar ice caps. A true legend and inspirational figure of our time, he is a highly sought-after speaker.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes was born in 1944 and brought up in South Africa. He was educated at Eton and served with the Royal Scots Greys for a time before joining the SAS, where he became the youngest captain in the British Army. In 1968 he joined the army of the Sultan of Oman, and in 1970 was awarded the Sultan’s Bravery Medal. In the same year he married his wife, Virginia, and together they embarked on a series of record-breaking expeditions. She became the first woman to be awarded the Polar Medal in 1987. She passed away in 2004.
As far back as 1968, Ranulph was showing his intrepid spirit. He led the first hovercraft expedition up the longest river in the world (the Nile). In 1984 he was described as the “World’s Greatest Living Explorer” by the Guinness Book of Expedition, and that was before he climbed Everest and Eiger and ran 7 marathons. He was the first to circumnavigate the world along its polar axis (with Charles Burton). ‘This 3-year, 52,000-mile odyssey took intricate planning, 1,900 sponsors, a 52-person team to handle, complex communications, meticulous planning and iron determination mixed with flexibility. The circumnavigation has never been successfully repeated.’
In 1990 he achieved the world record for unsupported northerly polar travel, and in 1992 he led the team that discovered the lost city of Ubar on the Yemeni border (after seven previous search expeditions over a 26-year period). Also in 1992 he completed the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic continent. This was the longest unsupported polar journey in history. In 2003, only 3½ months after a massive heart attack, 3-day coma and double bypass, Ranulph Fiennes achieved the first 7x7x7 (seven marathons in seven consecutive days on all seven continents). In May 2009 he became the oldest Briton…
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