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You’re crossing the Arctic and your sled falls through thin ice. Do you:
a) make someone else reach into the water to get it?
b) get straight on the satnav phone and ask to be rescued?
c) plunge [...]
Following the re-opening of Everest after the Chinese summit with the Olympic torch, Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Team Marie Curie are hoping to set off for the final part of their acclimatisation this weekend. They will ascend to Camp 3 and come back down to Base Camp, and will then wait their turn to set [...]
This toilet at Camp 2 is not a place to linger. It sits surrounded by 5ft square blocks at the bottom of a huge ice cliff on the South Summit face.
The ice cliff is constantly collapsing, spitting out huge boulders that gun straight for this dunny. Use it at your peril – or make like [...]
During his last trip to Camp 2 Sir Ranulph suffered from severe exhaustion due to lack of sleep. Sir Ranulph said: “I got pretty much ruined, or that is how I felt, by this filthy cough. I’m now on penicillin and the doc has said to go down the valley would be very beneficial to [...]
Here are some images of Sir Ranulph from the acclimatisation trip to Camp 2.
You can see the precarious ladders that are placed by the Sherpa Ice Doctors, enabling the climbers to take the safest path up the mountain.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Team Marie Curie have stepped back into Base Camp after their first night at Camp 1.
The team left Base Camp at 5am on Sunday April 20 and began the difficult climb up through the Khumbu Icefall towards Camp 1.
The challenging job of fixing the ropes en route to the summit, and [...]
In this video, Sir Ranulph Fiennes talks about the trek to Camp 1. Perhaps unexpectedly, it is not the cold that concerns him most, it is the extreme heat they will face on the Western Cwm.
The Western Cwm, often called the ‘Valley of Silence’, is a glacial valley at the foot of the Lhotse Face [...]
After an eight day trek through the Sagamarta National Park, Sir Ranulph Fiennes has reached Everest Base Camp. Sir Ranulph now begins the long acclimatisation process which will eventually see him make a bid for the summit of the world’s highest mountain in May.
Sir Ranulph said: “By the time we first saw Base Camp in [...]
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has begun the arduous trek to Everest Base Camp, where he will make an attempt on the summit that previously defeated him.
The journey began with a forty minute flight on an 18 seat twin-propeller plane from Kathmandu, Nepal to Lukla, the market town at an elevation of 2,840m, where the ten day [...]
Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE will today (Wednesday April 2) set off for the first leg of his journey as he prepares to climb Mount Everest for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Sir Ranulph and expedition guide Kenton Cool will set off from London this morning where they will fly to Kathmandu. From there the team will [...]
