And other things to learn about the legendary British adventurer’s life from insightful new documentary Explorer
At the start of the 1970s, when producer Cubby Broccoli was looking for an actor to replace the ill-fated George Lazenby as James Bond, a call was put out to 400 hopefuls, including one Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes. Fiennes, or “Ran”, as he prefers to be called, certainly fit much of the bill to be secret agent 007.
And be them and live them he did. For Fiennes, now 78, is, as the marketing materials for the film describe him, “the world’s greatest living explorer”. He has circumnavigated the globe via the North and South Poles; he has crossed Antarctica unsupported; he has attempted a solo trek to the North Pole, which resulted in severe frostbite on his fingers that necessitated their amputation .
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