Intrepid explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is no stranger to pain. Since the Sixties he has undertaken gruelling physical expeditions worldwide. He has suffered frostbite, resulting in the loss of ...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes sawed off his frostbitten fingers after his wife told him he had become "irritable". The famous British explorer revealed he hacked off his digits through flesh and bone with a ...

But despite scaling Everest, Sir Ranulph Fiennes has said he makes his wife clear the gutters at home because he is too scared to go up a ladder. The 76-year-old explorer said his vertigo means ...

He’s sawn off his own fingers and collapsed with chest pains at the top of Mount Everest, but Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE – or simply Ran to his friends – is ...

The former SAS officer hacked through his own flesh and blood using a vice and a saw to save on a £6,000 surgery bill POLAR explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes sliced off his frostbitten fingers after ...

Adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has spoken to the new MBA class at London Business School about his record-breaking circumnavigation of the globe on its polar axis. Addressing the assembled students at ...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is to attempt to climb four mountains to complete a quest to climb the highest mountain on every continent. If he succeeds, the explorer will become the first person to climb ...

British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is to lead the first team on foot across Antarctica during the southern winter. The six-month expedition next year is being called the Coldest Journey ...

Appearing on Lorraine this morning (Monday, January 31) to promote both his biography of Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and live stage show Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Living ...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes has explored the North and South Poles and holds the title of the oldest Briton to scale Mount Everest, but even he is starting to feel the effects of ageing — at 72.

Among his ancestors, explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has discovered a regicide, a royal adulterer, and a knight who can be seen in the Bayeux Tapestry. He tells Olga Craig about his remarkable ...