Sir Ranulph Fiennes on Shackleton
Dan Snow's History Hit
00:00
Would You Have Wasted Your Shot?
If we hadn't succeeded, we would have been left for the rest of our life with knowing tat an expedition of that nature, that difficulty. You still have achieved everything you've achieved even if you hadn't made that rendezvous. The most recent one was trying to do what mike and i broke the world record, of crossing the continent with nothing, no help from any source. We wanted to do that in winter, but the foreign office polar desk wouldn't allow it. And so we had to do what the british antarctic surveyed, because they're allowed their bats in winter,. including at all times access to a operating theatre. There are side issues like science
Play episode from 33:44
Transcript
