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Sir Ran was an absolute hit with our audience and staff alike, and we would be excited to have him speak at another evening
City Wire
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is an explorer and one of the world’s top inspirational business motivational speakers. He has thrilled audiences everywhere with his superbly illustrated and highly motivating talks and presentations.
The Guinness Book of Records has described Ranulph Fiennes as The World’s Greatest living explorer. He is the only man alive to have travelled the surface of the World’s polar axis.
Sir Ranulph was born in 1944 in the UK, just after his father was killed in the war. Brought up in South Africa he returned as a student to attend Eton College where he failed his A levels. His first introduction to military life came when he joined the Royal Scots Greys (Tanks). This was during the Cold War. Later in 1965 he joined the SAS and became the youngest Captain in the British Army.
Between 1968 and 70 he fought Marxist Terrorists and received the Sultans Bravery Medal from HM the Queen.
in the late 80’s he became President of PR and Adviser for Western Europe to Chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp.
In 1970 he married his childhood sweetheart Jinnie. Together they launched a series of record breaking expeditions. This also kept them ahead of their international rivals for three decades. During the last 30 years his astonishing feats of physical and mental endurance have claimed 10 expeditionary world records.
He was first to Reach both Poles (with Charles Burton)
First to cross Antarctica and the Artic Ocean
Sir Ranulph was first to circumnavigate the world along it’s polar axis (with Charles Burton). This was a 3 year, 52 000 mile odyssey which took intricate planning, 1900 sponsors and also a 52 person team. The team were required to handle complex communications and help with the meticulous planning. The expedition took iron determination mixed with flexibility. The circumnavigation has never been successfully repeated.
First to cross the Antarctic Continent unsupported (with Mike Stroud) This was also the longest unsupported polar journey in history.
He holds the current world record as being the only person to have climbed Mount Everest. He also crossed both Antarctica and the Arctic Ocean via the Poles.
After a 26 year search he discovered the lost city of Ubar, Arabias incense capital of the world.
2007 saw Sir Ranulph in the Alps climbing the North Face of the Eiger. Sir Ran who only started climbing two years previously, was climbing in a bid to raise 1.5 million pounds for Marie Curie Cancer Care. This was filmed by ITN CNN News and covered by the Sunday Times. His achievement is all the more amazing, as Sir Ranulph also suffers from vertigo and a heart condition. He climbed despite having had all of his fingers on one hand amputated at the half knuckle. This was after developing severe frostbite on a solo polar journey in 2000.
2007 also saw the ribbon cutting of the MRI Scanner which took place at the Centre for Cardiovascular MRI at Great Ormond Street Hospital. This was as a result of the 2 million pounds raised for the Ranulph Fiennes Healthy Hearts Appeal. That was when in 2005 Sir Ranulph, climbed Everest to within 300m of the summit.
2007 saw Sir Ranulph winning the Greatest Britons Sport Award (Other nominees included Lewis Hamilton)
In May 2008 he climbed Everest (Nepal-side) to within 400m from summit raising 2m for Marie Curie Cancer Care Delivering Choice Programme.
Having led 22 major expeditions to remote parts of the world, also including both Poles, Ranulph Fiennes is currently the only man alive to have travelled around the Earth’s circumpolar surface. He was also the first explorer to completely cross the Antarctic continent unsupported, and in 2009, aged 65, climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, the oldest Briton ever to do so.
As a measure of his speaking abilities, he was chosen by IBM New York as their chief motivational speaker. This was out of 700 top international speakers. He spoke at 65 major conferences world-wide.
BOOKS:
To date Sir Ranulph has written over twenty three books. These include the UK bestseller The Feather Men. In 2003 he published the top selling biography of Captain Scott. In 2011 The Feather Men was released as a major motion picture Killer Elite (www.killerelite.com). Cold was published in 2014 and Agincourt also came out in 2014. This was followed by Heat and in 2017 Fear was published. His next book in 2021 was Shackleton, a new account of the Victorian eaxplorer.
To date Ranulph Fiennes has raised over £18.3 million for different UK charities including the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, the British Heart Foundation and also Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been named the UK’s top celebrity fundraiser by Just Giving, the UK’s most popular online fundraising platform. He has raised more than any other celebrity fundraiser featured on JustGiving.com during the same period. To date he has raised £8.3 million for Marie Curie.
He was involved in the planning of The Coldest Journey in 2012 and in 2013. Over £1.8 million was raised for Seeing is Believing. Another £1 million was raised for Marie Curie through successfully finishing the Marathon des Sables in 2015.
Amway selected him as their main speaker at four key European conferences. Eachone was attended by an audience of 13,000 distributors.
BT, J P Morgan, British Airways and many others have used him as their after dinner speaker for small groups of top-level managers.
The Daily Telegraph referred to him as one of the Top Twenty international speakers.
Sir Ranulph’s entertaining and inspiring presentations are adapted not only to suit each audience or conference theme but also to keep up with his latest expeditions.
A burning message of personal motivation relevant to any demanding activity in the increasingly competitive business field is guaranteed to fire up any audience with enthusiasm.
SOME TESTIMONIALS:
EMLA (NHS) Leadership Essentials Conference
“I could have listened to Sir Ranulph all day – he was the most interesting speaker I have ever had the fortune to listen to. Self-deprecating, humorous but highly inspirational, a really good end to the day”
Hiscox Insurance
“I cannot recommend Ran Fiennes highly enough to anyone looking for a speaker. Not only is his subject matter interesting and entertaining, but his delivery is fabulous. And he is, of course, a delight to work with. Ran spoke for 50 minutes, plus Q&A and was a great hit with the audience. He spent time afterwards signing lots and lots of books – before his long drive home”
Martin Currie Investment Management Team
“I wanted to write to thank you on behalf of my colleagues and I, for speaking at our All Staff Conference in Edinburgh… Your presentation was incredibly thought provoking and the Q & A session fascinating and engaging”
J.C. (Theatre Tour)
“…I was transfixed! Huge admiration …quite outstanding what you have done”
The Sun newspaper
“Jeremy Clarkson on being asked for his Top Gear BEST GUEST. He said “Ranulph Fiennes – His interview was so spellbinding we dropped a film from the show to make it longer“
