Fiennes then returned to be educated at Sandroyd School, Wiltshire and then at Eton College.įiennes at the Celebrating Captain Scott's Legacy event in London, 2012 Officer Īfter failing to gain entry into the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Fiennes attended Mons Officer Cadet School. While in South Africa he attended Western Province Preparatory School in Newlands, Cape Town. Fiennes inherited his father's baronetcy, becoming the 3rd Baronet of Banbury, at his birth.Īfter the war his mother moved the family to South Africa, where he remained until he was 12. Fiennes' mother was Audrey Joan (died 2004), younger daughter of Sir Percy Newson, Bt. He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Order. Whilst commanding the Royal Scots Greys in Italy Fiennes' father trod on a German anti-personnel S-mine and died of his wounds eleven days later in Naples on 24 November 1943. Fiennes has written numerous books about his army service and his expeditions as well as books on explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.įiennes was born in Windsor, Berkshire on 7 March 1944, nearly four months after the death of his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.
In May 2009, at the age of 65, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest.Īccording to the Guinness Book of World Records in 1984, he was the world's greatest living explorer. He later undertook numerous expeditions and was the first person to visit both the North Pole and South Pole by surface means and the first to completely cross Antarctica on foot.
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet OBE (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes ( / ˈ r æ n ʌ l f ˈ f aɪ n z/) and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records.įiennes served in the British Army for eight years, including a period on counter-insurgency service while attached to the Army of the Sultanate of Oman.
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