Glamorgan graduates meet Britain's most famous modern-day explorer". News.glam.ac.uk. 18 July 2012. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012 . Retrieved 16 August 2013. Killer Elite (2011), Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4447-0792-2 (previously published as The Feather Men). The north face of the Eiger has killed off 80 people but I could only do it because of that guy.” A fragile planet Freeze Frame» Transglobe Expedition 1979-82". freezeframe.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 25 May 2018 . Retrieved 25 May 2018.

Preparation for what came to be called the Transglobe Expedition began in 1972 and occupied much of Fiennes’s and Ginny’s time during the rest of the decade. The trekking team, led by Fiennes and including fellow Britons Charles Burton and Oliver Shepard, had a support crew of some three dozen people, including Ginny. They departed from Greenwich, England, in September 1979, attempting to stay as close as possible to the Greenwich meridian as they journeyed southward over land and water, until they reached the coast of Antarctica in January 1980. They remained there until October, when Fiennes, Burton, and Shepherd departed on snowmobiles for the South Pole, which they reached on December 15. Setting out again after a short time at the American base there, they arrived at the Scott Base on the west coast of Antarctica in mid-January 1981, having made the continental traverse in a record-setting 67 days. Bowring, Hugh (25 February 2013). "Latest News". The Coldest Journey. Archived from the original on 2 April 2013 . Retrieved 16 August 2013. Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth (2013), Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-47112-782-3. Travels with My Heart: The Essential Guide for Travellers with Heart Conditions (2007), Matador. ISBN 978-1-905886-88-3 (by Robin Liston, foreword by Ranulph Fiennes).Fiennes had to pull out of the Coldest Journey expedition on 25 February 2013 because of frostbite and was evacuated from Antarctica. [22] [23] Author [ edit ] When I did the north face of the Eiger, I was being led by this guy who had done Everest 11 times. Just don’t look down…

In September 2012 it was announced that Fiennes was to lead the first attempt to cross Antarctica during the southern winter, in aid of the charity Seeing is Believing, an initiative to prevent avoidable blindness. The six-man team was dropped off by ship at Crown Bay in Queen Maud Land in January 2013, and waited until the Southern Hemisphere's autumnal equinox on 21 March 2013 before embarking across the ice shelf. The team would ascend 10,000 feet (3,000m) onto the inland plateau, and head to the South Pole. The intention was for Fiennes and his skiing partner, Dr Mike Stroud, [20] to lead on foot and be followed by two bulldozers dragging industrial sledges. [21] Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic Survival, Birlinn Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84158-077-7 (by Sir Douglas Mawson, foreword by Ranulph Fiennes). Henley, Jon (5 October 2007). "I am not a madman". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017 . Retrieved 9 January 2015. Just for the Love of it: The First Woman to Climb Mount Everest from Both Sides (2000), Free to Decide Publishing. ISBN 978-0-620-24782-5 (by Cathy O'Dowd, foreword by Ranulph Fiennes).

Price, Matthew (17 September 2012). "Sir Ranulph Fiennes to attempt record Antarctica trek". BBC News. Archived from the original on 10 June 2013 . Retrieved 16 August 2013. It’s pretty simple: don’t allow yourself to think below your feet at all. It seems obvious but don’t look down.