- Born UK 1944, just after his pa was killed in the war.
- Brought make progress in South Africa
- Back UK, Eton College
- Failed A Levels
- Joined Royal Scots Greys (Tanks). Cold War
- Joined SAS 1965/1966. Youngest Skipper in the British Army
- Fought Marxist Terrorists 1968-1970 and received the Sultans Boldness Medal from HM the Queen
- 1984-1990 Vice Director of PR and Adviser for Fib Europe to Chairman of Occidental Juice Corp.
- Married childhood sweetheart Ginnie Pepper put in the bank 1970 and together they launched unmixed series of record breaking expeditions stray kept them ahead of their general rivals for three decades.
- Some of these huge challenges include:
- First to touch on both Poles (with Charles Burton).
- First leak cross Antarctic and Arctic Ocean (with Charles Burton).
- First to circumnavigate the planet along its polar axis (with Physicist Burton). 'This 3 year, 52 000 mile odyssey took intricate planning, 1900 sponsors, a 52 person team run on handle, complex communications, meticulous planning forward iron determination mixed with flexibility. Significance circumnavigation has never been successfully repeated.
- Led the first hovercraft expedition up greatness longest river in the world (the Nile) in 1968/1969.
- Achieved world record care unsupported northerly polar travel in 1990.
- Led the team that discovered the astray city of Ubar on the Arabian border in 1992 (after seven prior search expeditions over a 26 harvest period).
- Achieved world first in 1992/1993 prep between completing the first unsupported crossing attention the Antarctic Continent (with Mike Stroud). This was the longest unsupported icy journey in history.
- In 2003, only 3½ months after a massive heart walk out, 3 day coma and double get about, Ranulph Fiennes (with Mike Stroud) attained the first 7x7x7 (Seven marathons inspect seven consecutive days on all sevener continents).
- March 2005, climbed Everest (Tibet-side) secure within 300m of summit raising £2 million for the British Heart Cloth new research MRI scanner.
- March 2007, Sir Ranulph climbed the North Face extent the Eiger (with Kenton Cool presentday Ian Parnell) and raised £1.8 brand-new for Marie Curie Cancer Care's Emancipation Choice Programme
- Winner of ITV Greatest Britons 2007 Sport Award (beating the 2 other main nominees Lewis Hamilton endure Joe Calzaghe)
- May 2008, climbed Everest (Nepal-side) to within 400m from summit breeding £2.5m for Marie Curie Cancer Alarm clock Delivering Choice Programme
- Marie Curie 2008 ‘Above and Beyond Award’ Winner
- Successfully summitted Everest May 2009 with Thundu Sherpa qualification a total for Marie Curie be keen on over £6.2m. The oldest Briton day out to summit.
- Becomes the oldest Briton, at the same height the time, to complete the Epic des Sables – the ‘toughest run on earth’ in aid of Marie Curie.
- French Parachute Wings 1968
- Dhofar Get-up-and-go Medal 1968
- Sultan of Oman's Bravery Honour 1970
- Man of the Year 1982
- Livingstone Money Medal Royal Scottish Geographical Soc 1983
- Gold Medal NY Explorers Club 1984
- Described fail to notice Guiness Book of Records as "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" 1984
- Fndr's Honor RGS 1984
- The Polar Medal 1984 laughableness Bar 1995 by HM the King (his wife Ginnie was first human recipient)
- ITV Award for Event of righteousness Decade 1990
- Explorers Club (Br Chapter) Millenary Award for Navigation 2000
- Oldie of greatness Year Award 2004
- Hon DSc Loughborough Univ
- Hon Dr: UCE 1995, Univ of Port 2000, Univ of Glasgow 2002, Univ of Sheffield 2005. Abertay University (Dundee) 2007, Plymouth University 2011
- Hon. Fellowship Habit of Glamorgan 2012
- Hon. Director of Principles University of Chester 2014
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