What is Ranulph Fiennes?
{{BLP unsourced|date=March 2016}} [[File:Ranulph Fiennes 2014.jpg|thumb|Ranulph Fiennes in 2014]] '''Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes''' (born 7 March 1944) is an [[English people|English]] [[explorer]]. Fiennes was born in [[Windsor, Berkshire]]. He was educated at [[Eton College]]. Fiennes wrote many books. He wrote 'The sett','Mad,bad and dangerous to know' , 'The secret Hunters' and much more. Fiennes has led over 30 expeditions. Ranulph did the first unsupported walk across [[Antarctica]]. Fiennes holds many records for his 52,000-mile expedition. It ended successfully on August 29, 1982. Fiennes is the only man alive ever to have travelled around the Earth's circumpolar. He became an English explorer after joining the armed forces. Fiennes was brought up in [[South Africa]] and lived in England for the rest of his life. He climbed [[Mount Everest]] successfully in 2009. ==Works== {{Div col}} * ''A Talent for Trouble'' (1970), {{ISBN|978-0340128459}} * ''Ice Fall in Norway'' (1972), {{ISBN|978-0749319083}} * ''The Headless Valley'' (1973), {{ISBN|978-0340158722}} * ''Where Soldiers fear to tread'' (1976), {{ISBN|978-0340147542}} * ''Hell on Ice'' (1979), {{ISBN|978-0340222157}} * ''To the Ends of the Earth: The Transglobe Expedition, the First Pole-to-pole Circumnavigation of the Globe'' (1983), {{ISBN|978-0877954903}} * ''Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest'' (2005), Hyperion; Reprint edition, {{ISBN|978-0786888580}} * ''Living Dangerously'' (1988), Time Warner Paperbacks, {{ISBN|978-0-7515-0434-7}} * ''[[The Feather Men]]'' (1991) The book upon which the 2011 film ''[[Killer Elite (film)|Killer Elite]]'' is based. * ''[[Atlantis of the Sands]]'' (1992), Bloomsbury, {{ISBN|0-7475-1327-9}} * ''The Sett'' (1997), Mandarin, {{ISBN|978-0749321611}} * ''Discovery Road'' (1998), TravellersEye Ltd, {{ISBN|978-0-9530575-3-5}}, (with T. Garratt and A. Brown) * ''Fit for Life'' (1999), Little, Brown & Co, {{ISBN|0-316-85263-5}} * ''Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarct