Ranulph Fiennes

Ranulph Fiennes belongs to a vanishing breed of genuine adventurers. Eight years in the British Army, counter-insurgency duty in Oman, and then a second life hauling himself across the poles to set endurance records most of us cannot fathom. The OBE and Royal Geographical Society medals are recognition, but what fascinates me is that he also wrote it all down; he experienced the extreme and then made sense of it on the page. I respect people who throw themselves at the limits of human capability, and Fiennes did it for decades with a stubbornness bordering on the heroic.

Name (English)

Ranulph Fiennes

Name (Japanese)

ラナルフ・ファインズ

Reading

らなるふ・ふぁいんず

Born

March 7, 1944 (age 82)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

Origin

Windsor, United Kingdom

Occupation

explorer / writer / athletics competitor / biographer / marathon runner

University

Eton College

Awards & achievements

• 1993 Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• 1984 Founder’s Medal
• Polar Medal
• Livingstone Medal

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph%20Fiennes

Tags

• explorer
• writer
• athletics competitor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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