On May 24, 2008, Sir Ranulph Fiennes had to be rescued from the last step at Mount Everest’ in his attempt, at age 64, to be the oldest British to have reached its summit.
This event would have seen as a failure, but what little is known is that he made an attempt even though he was under heart and cancer treatments.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is considered the most important life explorer in the world, which made him be named Baron of Banbury by Queen Elizabeth II of England.
However, for him, this all is just proof that under adverse conditions, the mind is stronger than the body.
He has proved it to him and everybody else for more than 40 years:
– Fiennes led a hovercraft expedition to the White Nile;
– He traveled on foot and kayaked 52,000 miles on a journey that took him from pole to pole, to become the first man to reach both poles of the earth;
– Is the man who has walked the longest distance to the north pole without any support;
– Discovered the Sands of Atlantis described by Ptolemy in the deserts of Oman;
– Was the first man to cross Antarctica on foot and with no support;
– Ran seven marathons on seven continents in seven days, shortly after suffering a coronary bypass after a myocardial infarction that left him unconscious for three days,
– Spent 72 days touring the top crest of Everest and has managed to raise more than £ 10 million for charity.
All this in a body that has suffered multiple heart attacks, who has fingers and toes amputated by frostbite, who has lost 30% of his body mass and suffering from prostate cancer.
The mind can and is stronger than the body.