Sir Ranulph Fiennes
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The world’s greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, has led an extraordinary life, travelling to some of the most remote and dangerous places on earth. He’s climbed Mt Everest, traversed from the North to South Pole, discovered a lost city and ran 7 marathons in 7 days in 7 continents. He’s cheated death many times, and raised millions for charity along the way. Chatting in the lobby of a busy London hotel, we discuss that time when he cut off his own fingertips and how he was nearly cast as James Bond. All that, and more, coming up on Episode 3 of The Travel Diaries.
Destination recap:
- Table Mountain and Kruger National Park, South Africa
- Mt Everest
- The Garden Route, South Africa
- Crossing of Antarctica
- Isle of Rhum, Scotland
- Muscat, Oman
- London, England
- Shisr, Nejd Desert, Oman
- Zambezi river trip, Tanzania
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries. Thank you for being here. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Holly Rubinstein. I'm a travel and entertainment journalist. And here each week, I'll be speaking to a special guest about their adventures around the world and the travel |
| 0:22.3 | experiences that have shaped their lives. Today, I am thrilled to be joined by the world's |
| 0:28.2 | greatest living explorer Sir Ranalf finds, or Ran as he likes to be known. Ran has led an |
| 0:35.3 | extraordinary life, travelling to some of the most remote and dangerous places on earth. |
| 0:41.3 | He's climbed Mount Everest, traversed from the north to the south pole, discovered a lost city and ran seven marathons in seven days in seven continents. |
| 0:51.3 | He's cheated death many times and raised millions for charity along the way. |
| 0:57.1 | We talk about that time when he cut off his own fingertips and how he was nearly cast as James Bond. |
| 1:04.9 | All that and more coming up on the Travel Diaries. |
| 1:17.4 | Thank you. coming up on The Travel Diaries. Sir Ranul finds, welcome to the Travel Diaries. |
| 1:21.0 | Thank you, Holly. |
| 1:22.0 | People know you as the world's greatest living explorer. |
| 1:26.0 | So I just have to say, for a podcast called The Travel Diaries, |
| 1:28.9 | it is such an honour to have you here. Well, that's very kind. That particular saying from the Guinness |
| 1:35.1 | book and the world's greatest living explorer due to the exploration records we had. So that's the |
| 1:40.6 | embarrassing title that they gave me back then. I think it's one to be pretty proud of, no? |
| 1:46.4 | Well, travel sort of became after the army my method of making a living. |
| 1:53.1 | And speaking of which, there's no doubt a lot of travel to get through. |
| 1:57.4 | So let's get started with chapter one of your travel diaries, and that's your |
| 2:03.2 | earliest travel memory. Well, when I was one year old, because my dad was killed in the war four |
| 2:09.7 | months before I got born, and his mum, who was South African, had lost the other son, my uncle, |
| 2:16.7 | in the First World War. So aged 80, she wanted to go back to South |
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