In 1982, having travelled for three years to do the first journey around the earth on its polar axis. Charles Burton and I were trying to get from the north pole down to our ship on the edge of the Arctic Sea. We had to float for three months on a diminishing ice floe. Eventually we had to leave the floe and try to get to the ship in canoes with skis under them. In the maze of broken ice we saw its masts on the horizon. That second was probably my happiest moment.
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Ranulph Fiennes
English explorer
United Kingdom · b. 1944
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes, 64, was born in England and raised in South Africa. He has led more than 30 expeditions, including the first polar circumnavigation of the earth. In 2003 he suffered a near-fatal heart attack, but soon after ran seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. Last year he scaled the north face of the Eiger. He is currently making his second attempt to reach the summit of Everest. He is married for the second time, has a two-year-old daughter and lives on Exmoor. His autobiography, Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know, has just been published in paperback.
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