Sir Ranulph Fiennes on Shackleton
Dan Snow's History Hit
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How Many Injuries Are You Carrying?
In the seventies, charley and i were on our way to break the world record for travelling from land pole towards back of bergen in Norway. But we lost two major sponsors in those days because there was a prostitute on their sledge - which is totally untrue. Over 52 years, forty % of the records we tried to break, we failed. How many injuries are you carrying? Well, i have to cut my lovely shoes because of the rebuilt small toe. They took away four inches from here and built a new toe and the end of that foot. So even when i go to harvey and hudson for lovely black army shoes,. i have to slit them with a
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