RANULPH FIENNES: Ranulph Fiennes (1944 - ) Since the 1960s Ranulph Fiennes has been an adventurer. He led expeditions up the White_Nile"White Nile on a hovercraft in 1969. Perhaps his most famous trek was the Transglobe Expedition he undertook from 1979 until 1982. Fiennes and two others journeyed around the world on its polar axis using surface transport only, covering 52,000 miles and becoming the first people to have visited both poles by land. Robert Scott’s conquest of the South Pole in 1911 brought him fame as well as severe criticism for many years after. He was criticized for mismanagement, incompetence, recklessness and self-aggrandizement. Fiennes defended Scott’s actions and methods. As an explorer he duplicated and endured the same deprivation, stress, anxiety and physical pain endured by Scott in Antarctica.
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