Sir Ranulph

[Wattle]

I see Sir Ranulph has finally summited Everest.

What a top bloke.

Ultimate respect.

Phil

 

[Dexter]

The guy defies belief. A real inspiration!!!

 

[Walks with dogs]

Absolutely 100% ! 65 years old, and summits Everest. Runs 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents 3 months after open heart surgery. Walks to the North and South Pole. Safe to say the guy has lived life to the fullest.

 

[Wattle]

I would love to spend a night around a camp fire with him, I bet he has some cracking stories to tell.

Phil

 

[scrogger]

I have had the pleasure of a brief chat with him some years ago. He is a true Gent and as you say Phil the sort of person you can sit and listen to for hours.

Top bloke indeed.

 

[John Fenna]

Well done - not every OAP can do that!

 

[Eric_Methven]

Kathmandu on a bus pass - now that's cheap travel. The old man dun well. I'm jealous.

 

[Barney]

What a superb achievement, a selfless fund raising operation, I heard that he only attempted it again after the last failure because the charity that he tried to raise money for had in fact not received the promised amount.

 

[jimford]

He always comes across to me as a modest, self-effacing person, though encumbered by an appalling moniker - 'Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes'

Jim

 

[Goatboy]

A top bloke and top dam burster too I'd like to by him a pint sometime.

 

[Tengu]

Im not impressed by his achievements, which seem somewhat boring, but I did enjoy his book on Scott.

 

[rik_uk3]

Im not impressed by his achievements, which seem somewhat boring, but I did enjoy his book on Scott.

Are we talking about the same fella Tengu? Boring Hardly my dear.

 

[Wayland]

Im not impressed by his achievements, which seem somewhat boring, but I did enjoy his book on Scott.

Any one on their own, perhaps.

But pack them all into one life and you just have to give the guy a big hand.

 

[Tengu]

Your right there Wayland.

But theres still things no one has done...Why follow well beaten tracks?

Im no adventurer but if I was Id try something new

 

[Shewie]

Good on him, he's certainly one of a kind

I hope I'm still doing stuff like that when I'm 65 and not just shuffling along a queue in the post office every Thursday picking up my pension.

 

[rik_uk3]

Your right there Wayland.

But theres still things no one has done...Why follow well beaten tracks?

Im no adventurer but if I was Id try something new

He has done one or two original things Tengu

1992 Fiennes led an expedition that discovered the lost city of Ubar in Oman.

Four months after a heart attack he ran seven marathons in seven days

First man to visit both the North and South poles by surface only means

First man to cross Antarctica on foot

Oldest man to Climb Everest

dead boring or what

 

[BorderReiver]

Naw, boring and Sir R don't belong in the same sentence.

The man has a very dry, understated sense of humour too. I could listen to him for hours and wonder where the time had gone.

 

[andybysea]

The type of guy that once put the Great before Britain.

 

[Tengu]

1992 Fiennes led an expedition that discovered the lost city of Ubar in Oman.

Well, that is an achievement. Why isnt this better publicised?

There is nothing to see at the poles or on Everest.

 

[Mesquite]

There is nothing to see at the poles or on Everest.

Nothing to see on Everest??? Just the sheer fact that you are on the highest point of earth and you look down upon everything is just a tad special in my books. So what if loads of people have done it now, it doesn't detract from the fact that he is the oldest man to have climbed it amongst a lot of his other acheivements.

As people say, a man like Ranulph Fiennes comes along but very rarely and we're lucky to have seen such a man in our lifetime.