Sir Ranulph Fiennes

(Basics)Sir Ranulph Fiennes was born in 1944 on March seventh; His real name is Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet. He is a British adventurer and he holds (endurance) records, he is also a prolific explorer. He served in the British army for eight years, and he also had a period which he did counter insurgency service while attached to the army of Sultanate of Oman. A while later he took on a lot of different expeditions and he was the first person to visit the north and south poles (which is really cool) by surface (this means he walked on Antarctica on his own feet I believe). In the year of 2009 in May (at an age of 65) he climbed Mount Everest. After that the book of world records said he was the world’s greatest (living) explorer. Fiennes has written numerous books about hs army survise and his expeditions as well as a book defending Robert Falcon Scott from modern revisionists.

(Early life) Fiennes was born on 7 March 1944, in Berkshire, shortly after the death of his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, commanding the Royal Scots Greys, who died of wounds on 24 November 1943. His mother was Audrey Joan, younger daughter of Sir Percy Newson, BT (baronet I know weird word). Fiennes inherited his father's baronetcy, becoming the 3rd Baronet of Banbury, at his birth. Fiennes is the third cousin of actors Joseph and Ralph Fiennes and is a distant cousin to the Family. After the war he and his mother moved to South Africa (he lived there until he was twelve then he went to Sandroyd School and later he joined the British army).

(His career as an adventurer) Fiennes has been an adventurer since the 1960’s; He has led expedition up the white Nile on a hovercraft in 1969 and on Norway’s Jostdalsbreen Glacier in 1970. One notable trek was the Transglobe expedition that he had under took 1979 and 1982 when he had two fellow members of 21 SAS, Oliver Shepard and Charles R burton, journeyed around the world on its polar axis, using surface transport only(nobody else has ever done so by any route before or since). As a part of the Transglobe expedition Fiennes and Burton completed the Northwest Passage. They left tuktoyattuk on the 26 of July in 1981, in an eighteen foot Boston whaler and reached Tanquary Fiord on 31 August 1981. Their journey was the first open boat transit from West to East and covered around 3,000 miles (2,600 nautical miles or 4,800 km) taking a route through Dolphin and Union Strait following the South coast of Victoria Island and King William Island, North to Resolute Bay via Franklin Strait and Peel Sound, around the South and East coasts of Devon Island, through Hell Gate and across Norwegian Bay to Eureka, Greely Bay and the head of Tanquary Fiord. Once they reached tanquary ford they had to trek (which I think means walk not sure I am going to look it up) one hundred and fifty miles (trek does mean walk by the way) traveling to Lake Hazen to alert before setting up there camp sight. Then in 1992 Sir Ranulph Fiennes led another expedition that had discovered what may be an outpost of the lost city of Iram in Oman. Later that year he had joined a nutrition specialist Doctor Mike Stroud to become the first to cross the Antarctic continent unsupported (yikes!) they had taken ninety three days. A further attempt to walk the south pole solo (which means by his self just to clear it up) in aid of Breast Cancer Charity, had been unsuccessful (which mean it did not go successful) due to a Kidney Stone attack he had had he had to be saved from this operation.