Ranulph Fiennes Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Ranulph Fiennes:

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
~Ranulph Fiennes


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ranulph-fiennes-quotes/#8171de1a

No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.
~Ranulph Fiennes


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ranulph-fiennes-quotes/#a241699d

As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
~Ranulph Fiennes


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ranulph-fiennes-quotes/#2b5c065c

While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.
~Ranulph Fiennes


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ranulph-fiennes-quotes/#41c394b5

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.
~Ranulph Fiennes


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ranulph-fiennes-quotes/#fedfd1e9

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