Ranulph Fiennes

A Bad Week for … , March 3, 2013

3 Mar 2013

Ikea found itself embroiled in the scandal over tainted meat - with the row even stretching as far as its ever-crowded Hong Kong stores.

British explorer Fiennes evacuated from Antarctica base

28 Feb 2013

Veteran British explorer Ranulph Fiennes was being evacuated from Antarctica on Wednesday, days after he reluctantly pulled out of a polar expedition team because of severe frostbite.

British explorer Fiennes pulls out of Antarctic expedition

26 Feb 2013

British explorer Ranulph Fiennes on Monday pulled out of an expedition to cross Antarctica during the region’s winter after developing frostbite – a bitter disappointment for an adventurer who had...

Who said it?

8 Jan 2013

I expect 2013 to be a year full of challenges - we cannot be too optimistic

Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah on the city's economic outlook

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Explorer Ranulph Fiennes due to set off on first Antarctic winter crossing

8 Jan 2013

British adventurer Ranulph Fiennes said his bid to complete the world's first Antarctic winter crossing, with no option of rescue, would be a trip into the unknown.

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Ranulph Fiennes

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High on ice

Ranulph Fiennes is sitting on the edge of a stage at London's Royal Geographical Society. In a few hours the world's most famous living explorer will speak before a packed house about his life,...

Mixed-up tale of fact and fiction

Top-quality reportage is far more difficult than thriller writing. You can't sit in a tower and write down your imaginings. You have to retrace the steps of complex, unpredictable human beings,...

'Indiana Jones' visits with all toes intact

WE are happy to report that Sir Ranulph Fiennes did manage to make it to Hongkong from London yesterday - despite our earlier reservations following news reports in British tabloids that the...

Top explorer lost in deepest Lancashire

HAVING booked April 2 in my diary to go the Sheraton Luncheon Club to have celebrated explorer and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes engage us with tales of his daring feats, I am now having serious...