My wife sawed off my frostbitten fingers in a shed and I sleep in my battered Ford Mondeo, says Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Ranulph says: “I have had two very lucky, happy marriages and I am very proud of that.”
Mission control believed that unless the explorer and his fellow team member Charlie Burton were airlifted out immediately, the weather would turn too treacherous. Stroud’s expertise was on how to survive on little, which was essential when they would be pulling their own supplies. Rather than wait several months for an operation to amputate the extremities of his left hand, he opted with Ginny’s help to cut them off using a fretsaw in his shed in Devon.Having survived everything the globe’s polar terrain could throw at him, Ranulph came closest to death in the most mundane circumstances.
A couple of years on he married Louise Millington and together they had the child he’d been unable to have with Ginny. Rather than pay for a hotel he often sleeps in his battered Ford Mondeo, which has 280,000 miles on the clock.
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