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RAN: This is Transglobe.
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Cove Radio. Cove Radio.One, two, three, four, five.
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Five, four, three, two, one.
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(TALKING AND STATIC OVER RADIO)
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GINNY:
One, two, three, four, five.
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Five, four,
three, two, one.
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One, two, three, four, five.
Five, four, three, two, one.
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(RADIO STATIC CONTINUES)
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GINNY: Uh, yes. Go ahead.
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(RADIO STATIC CONTINUES)
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
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ANNOUNCER:
Ladies and gentlemen,
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the Guinness Book of RecordsHall of Fame.
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The first man that we're
inducting into the Hall of Fame
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dedicated his life to danger,
adventure and exploration.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
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(APPLAUSE)
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TERRY WOGAN:
He's been described
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as beingsomething of an eccentric.
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MAN: A remarkable man
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you might call brave,driven, extraordinary,
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or just plain crazy.
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MAN 2: He's gone furtherthan anyone's gone before,
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pushing the boundaries of whathumans can do and understand.
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MICHAEL ASPEL:
It's been a life of adventure.
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Parachutingonto a Norwegian glacier.
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Fighting a guerrilla warin Arabia and...
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SUE LAWLEY: He's navigatedthe White Nile in a hovercraft,
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spent three years travellingaround the world
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through both Poles,
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discovered a lost cityin Arabia,
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and recently nearly perishedin Antarctica.
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JEREMY CLARKSON:
Thrown out of the SAS,
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he's walked to the North Pole,run seven marathons.
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MAN 3: His level of fitness,
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enduranceand competitive spirit
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puts him way aboveany sportsman.
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He is the greatest explorerthis country's ever had.
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JEREMY PAXMAN:
Frostbitten, half-starved
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and more dead than alive,
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the polar explorerSir Ranulph Fiennes
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tucked into a hearty breakfast.
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BRIAN HANRAHAN: One questioneverybody wants to know:
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"Why did you do it?"
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(PHONE LINE RINGS)
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The number you are calling doesnot accept unidentified calls.
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-The number you...
-(DIALLING)
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(PHONE LINE RINGS)
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PRINCE CHARLES:
Are you doing it now?
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I spoke to him on the telephone
occasionally.
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See how things were going.
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But most of the time, I thought
I'd never see him again.
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I kept saying,
"You can't do it now.
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Don't you realise
how old you are?"
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Anyway, it didn't stop him.
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MAN:
Darling, are you OK for Matt
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to use our conversation
in his film?
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WOMAN: I'm cleaning my teeth.
Sorry.
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-MAN: Just cleaning her teeth.
-(PHONE RINGS)
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She said she'll be out
in a sec.
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RAN: Hello? Hi.
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WOMAN 2: There's nothing normal
about Ran.
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In the context
of the contemporary world,
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he is not a normal guy.
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(PHONE RINGS)
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WOMAN 3:
He is the last great explorer.
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The man has become a myth.
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WOMAN 4: You only ever see
explorer Ran,
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you never see
the other side of it.
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RAN: Hello?
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-Hello?
-(RADIO CUTS OUT)
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BEAR GRYLLS:
Tonight is going to be special.
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Ran has always managed
to do things
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with a certain je ne sais quoi,
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a certain flair,
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that sets him apart
from all of us mere mortals.
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Most of us aspire
to run a marathon.
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RAN:
They're like penicillin pills.
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(CHUCKLES)
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-What, aren't you feeling good?
-Not confident.
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BEAR GRYLLS: And that
is typical of Ran for you.
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Always further,
always up, always beyond.
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Always that little bit better.
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To me he has always been
the best.
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He's always been the leader.
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And he's always been my hero.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
please do a warm welcome
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for the legend that is
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Sir Ranulph
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.
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(APPLAUSE)
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RAN: Thank you very much.
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I'm gonna be speaking,
basically,
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on the topic
of taking package holidays
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to weird areas with no scenery,
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with odd bunches of people.
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I ought to stress
that I've been doing it
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for 32 years as a profession
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not because it's there, or
because it's sort of romantic,
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but basically in order
to pay the gas bill.
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(LAUGHTER)
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Right, we're going for it, yeah.
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Whoops.
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Done it.
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I drive a hell of a lot, yeah.
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You have to lecture.
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That is the only way
an explorer can get paid
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for doing what he does,
or she does.
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But there is always the worry
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that one might no longer be able
to make an income.
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Hello, police.
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Get into gear, will you?
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-(CAR HORN BLARES)
-Stop hooting.
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(WIND HOWLS)
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When he's got his work head on,
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he's very single-minded,
he's driven.
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Nobody can say,
"Ran, don't you think
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it'll be better
to do it this way?"
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One time I said, "Why don't you
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just take a gun
and shoot yourself
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in the middle of a field?
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It would be much less expensive
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and it would not involve
so many people."
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(LAUGHS)
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MAN: I met him
for the first time in the Arctic
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when we were about to set off.
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I'd kind of heard
that he was really difficult
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in terms of knowing what
he wanted and sticking to it.
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And he was the leader.
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Just as army units have leaders.
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Hello.
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-Hi. Mike?
-Yeah.
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MIKE: I certainly
didn't view it like that.
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You know,
I just wouldn't even conceive
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of an expedition
of two having a leader.
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It just goes quite beyond me.
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NARRATOR:
The extravagant ambition
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of British explorerSir Ranulph Fiennes
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is to overcomethe last great polar challenge,
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a totally unsupported trekto the North Pole.
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But once loaded
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with the 60 days' provisionsfor the journey,
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his sledge weighednearly 400 pounds.
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And with the temperaturebelow minus 50 centigrade,
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this was proving too mucheven for him to haul.
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MAN: Honestly, Ran, I can't see
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what on earth
you can take out of this.
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RAN: I can take
the spare radio battery.
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If we do that,
what are we doing?
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We're compromising
on safety.
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-That's the way we don't travel.
-RAN: It's irresponsible?
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t is irresponsible. And we
just don't work like that.
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With one battery,
that's what you're doing.
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-What about one saw set?
-One saw set?
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Again, what happens
when the other one goes?
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You're absolutely stuck.
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-Yeah.
-It's all compromise.
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RAN:
Well, something has got to go.
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NARRATOR: Against the adviceof his team-mates,
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he decides he will cut down hissupplies from 60 days to 45.
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The thought of failure
is impossible.
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He cannot fail.
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In athletic terms,
he was really very special,
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and could have been
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an Olympic-standard
endurance athlete.
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Ran's foot got frost bit
a couple of days ago now.
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When he took
his sock off tonight,
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part of the little toe
came away.
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The toe could become infected
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and the infection
could spread to the foot
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which would be serious.
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I just keep saying to myself
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the old thing
from Pilgrim's Progress
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which is, um,
always a little further,
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even if it's only ten yards.
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That's what you're thinking of,
that ten yards.
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We wanted to be first
unsupported to the North Pole.
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If you got there second,
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you might as well
not have done it. Simple.
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NARRATOR:
Sixteen days after setting out,
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the Britons findthat they're finally cut off
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from the Pole by open water.
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But it's been confirmed
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that they have reached closerto the North Pole
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than any otherunsupported expedition.
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To have done the record of
the furthest north unsupported,
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is nice to know for one's own
point of view inside oneself.
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But the goal of the Pole,
totally unsupported,
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must remain, for me, something
which is sadly unattainable.
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Ran was so disappointed that
he hadn't got to the North Pole,
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or that we hadn't,
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he went into complete decline.
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Probably the first time in Ran's
mind he thought he had failed.
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To me, he's out there
for the wrong reason.
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He's out there
for what he thinks
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other people
are gonna think of him.
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And it shouldn't be competitive.
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How insecure do you need to be
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to have to go around
the fucking world
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to beat the rival,
to feel good about yourself?
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That has to be driven
by some sort of metric
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that was given to him
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by his parents or his peers
or something.
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(BIRDS CHIRP)
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(COW MOOS)
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MAN: Quite peaceful up here,
isn't it?
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Peaceful?
Yeah, most of the time.
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The only thing that breaks
the silence is moos or baas.
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Are you shaking? Ah.
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Got the tremors.
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Ginny put our ancestor pictures
in this room
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going back to the 15th century,
some of them.
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(COW MOOS)
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-Try and keep them straight.
-(PICTURE RATTLES)
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Yeah, so that's, um,
pretty much that.
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That's Dad. And obviously,
as I go past my dad,
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I say, "Morning, Dad. Love you."
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(COW MOOS)
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Dad wrote this to my
middle sister Celia, um...
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"From Lieutenant Colonel
R Fiennes, Royal Scots Greys,
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Middle East Force,
14th of April, 1942."
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And he's done a little cartoon
picture of his three daughters.
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Big sister Susan.
Middle sister Celia.
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Little sister he called Judy
but her name is Jill.
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He doesn't know that a son
is on the way, of course.
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Four months before I was born,
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he trod on a mine
and was killed.
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Mum brought me up on stories
about him.
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My mum I really respected,
very much indeed.
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She always saw
the best side of everything.
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Her lovely husband died,
was killed, suddenly,
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and she's got four children.
Yeah, four children.
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And her very strong-minded
mother-in-law, South African,
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says,
"Right, now they're all dead,
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I want to go back and die
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back with all our relations
in Cape Town."
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We got put on a ship,
the four of us and Mum
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under domineering Granny,
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went out to South Africa.
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That is Granny.
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She looks at you, you know,
her eyes,
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wherever you move around
the room.
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(COW MOOS)
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Mum was bossed
by her mother-in-law.
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We were out there for ten years.
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When Granny died, Mum
took all of us back to the UK.
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I was brought up with
an all-woman household. No men.
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I had three older sisters.
No uncle, only aunts.
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No grandfathers,
only grandmothers.
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No father, only Mother.
250
00:18:03,387 --> 00:18:05,156
I was spoilt rotten.
251
00:18:07,292 --> 00:18:12,262
Well, we first met
when we were little kids.
252
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We got up
to all sorts of things.
253
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The ground, land,
was our playground, wasn't it?
254
00:18:19,898 --> 00:18:23,306
We were a couple of monsters,
I suppose. (CHUCKLES)
255
00:18:23,341 --> 00:18:27,277
(♪ "ROLLIN' AND TUMBLIN'"
BY ELMORE JAMES)
256
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RAN: We were known by
the village as Tooth and Nail.
257
00:18:41,755 --> 00:18:45,691
PETER: We had all sorts
of weapons that were handmade.
258
00:18:46,496 --> 00:18:48,232
Spears made from wood
259
00:18:48,267 --> 00:18:52,302
and the tip of the spear
was sharpened to a point.
260
00:18:52,337 --> 00:18:55,932
And then we used to cut a tin up
so it was metal tipped.
261
00:18:57,441 --> 00:18:59,375
We were always getting hurt.
262
00:18:59,410 --> 00:19:03,478
Me more than him probably,
cos he was bigger than me.
263
00:19:03,513 --> 00:19:05,348
Why we're still alive
I do not know.
264
00:19:05,383 --> 00:19:07,548
We should have been maimed,
really.
265
00:19:21,762 --> 00:19:25,896
We both had that exploration
thing in our blood, I suppose.
266
00:19:27,603 --> 00:19:30,307
And he took it
all the way through.
267
00:19:41,012 --> 00:19:46,048
RAN: Since I was tiny, I thought
I'd like to be like Dad.
268
00:19:46,083 --> 00:19:50,756
Commanding Officer
of the Royal Scots Greys.
269
00:19:52,595 --> 00:19:54,463
And I really tried hard.
270
00:20:01,065 --> 00:20:05,804
I knew him really
from Officer Cadets at Mons.
271
00:20:05,839 --> 00:20:08,741
He was about 19, I suppose.
272
00:20:08,776 --> 00:20:12,008
He wasn't somebody who enjoyed
going to pubs and things.
273
00:20:12,043 --> 00:20:15,781
He'd rather be
going to impossible places.
274
00:20:20,458 --> 00:20:22,326
It was a very good fun life
275
00:20:22,361 --> 00:20:25,054
because there were
no wars going on.
276
00:20:25,089 --> 00:20:28,332
So, it was just the young people
277
00:20:28,367 --> 00:20:31,731
doing as much as they could
to try and burn off energy.
278
00:20:33,669 --> 00:20:35,405
Some of the things he did
279
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,804
were a bit unconventional,
you could say.
280
00:20:42,975 --> 00:20:45,107
He would always come up
with crackpot ideas
281
00:20:45,142 --> 00:20:48,077
of going on expeditions
and blowing up things.
282
00:20:50,653 --> 00:20:53,984
Whatever he got up to,
it was great fun to follow.
283
00:21:01,092 --> 00:21:03,466
His troops loved him,
284
00:21:03,501 --> 00:21:06,029
but sadly, the Armoured Regiment
in Germany
285
00:21:06,064 --> 00:21:07,635
was too boring for him.
286
00:21:09,573 --> 00:21:13,069
So he went off and joined
the Special Air Service.
287
00:21:16,646 --> 00:21:18,382
RAN: I had just passed
288
00:21:18,417 --> 00:21:21,418
a demolitions course
with the SAS.
289
00:21:21,453 --> 00:21:25,620
I had found that I was very good
at blowing up the target
290
00:21:25,655 --> 00:21:27,688
with minimal stuff.
291
00:21:27,723 --> 00:21:30,493
And I happened to have
a lot of explosives.
292
00:21:37,403 --> 00:21:40,734
I got a phone call
from an old school friend.
293
00:21:40,769 --> 00:21:44,771
Castle Combe,
the prettiest village in the UK,
294
00:21:44,806 --> 00:21:46,740
was being ruined.
295
00:21:46,775 --> 00:21:49,545
The company,
called Twentieth Century Fox,
296
00:21:49,580 --> 00:21:51,712
were making a film
in their lovely village,
297
00:21:51,747 --> 00:21:58,554
which involved turning the trout
stream into a lake for filming.
298
00:22:01,856 --> 00:22:05,759
We started developing
this completely loco idea.
299
00:22:05,794 --> 00:22:08,696
I mean,
it was the stupidest idea ever.
300
00:22:10,997 --> 00:22:14,438
The artificial lake
was protected by sandbags.
301
00:22:14,473 --> 00:22:17,067
The idea was
to remove a sandbag.
302
00:22:18,741 --> 00:22:22,512
Next morning,
when they went to start filming,
303
00:22:22,547 --> 00:22:26,483
the lake would have disappeared.
(LAUGHS)
304
00:22:26,518 --> 00:22:30,949
To do this,
it needed to have a diversion.
305
00:22:30,984 --> 00:22:34,557
Ran said, "OK, I'll get hold
of the thunder flashes."
306
00:22:34,592 --> 00:22:37,219
MICHAEL: Ran then came up
with this brilliant idea.
307
00:22:37,254 --> 00:22:39,661
He knew a guy, a photographer,
308
00:22:39,696 --> 00:22:42,598
and would be
a frightfully good idea
309
00:22:42,633 --> 00:22:46,668
if he got the guy to come along
and record this event.
310
00:22:48,067 --> 00:22:52,542
Well, we know what happens next.
The guy does turn up.
311
00:22:52,577 --> 00:22:55,644
And do you know what, invites
Plod to come along as well.
312
00:22:55,679 --> 00:22:59,516
And guess what.
Guess what. They are arrested.
313
00:22:59,551 --> 00:23:00,814
(LAUGHS)
314
00:23:01,883 --> 00:23:03,212
WILLIAM: What we didn't know
315
00:23:03,247 --> 00:23:05,621
was that he didn't
get just thunderflashes,
316
00:23:05,656 --> 00:23:08,822
he went off and got some
actual explosives.
317
00:23:10,122 --> 00:23:13,123
MICHAEL:
How it plays off is terrible.
318
00:23:13,158 --> 00:23:16,698
Old Etonian toffs playing
"let's blow up a village".
319
00:23:19,571 --> 00:23:22,968
The punishment
that was meted to him was mega.
320
00:23:25,104 --> 00:23:29,073
You know, he was not going to be
a colonel of the Greys.
321
00:23:35,114 --> 00:23:37,950
(DISTANT SIRENS)
322
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:44,726
RAN: I regret
not having been able to do
323
00:23:44,761 --> 00:23:49,258
the thing that I
only wished to do for 24 years.
324
00:23:50,767 --> 00:23:52,833
Be what my dad was.
325
00:23:55,035 --> 00:24:01,974
And when I failed, I eventually
thought two fingers to life.
326
00:24:04,814 --> 00:24:08,013
I was on probation
for six months.
327
00:24:08,048 --> 00:24:11,621
Thrown out of the SAS back
to my own regiment
328
00:24:11,656 --> 00:24:13,722
who were still in Germany.
329
00:24:13,757 --> 00:24:15,691
(TANKS FIRING)
330
00:24:16,859 --> 00:24:20,795
I got fed up
with endless moving around
331
00:24:20,830 --> 00:24:24,194
in 60-tonne monsters,
332
00:24:24,229 --> 00:24:27,835
but I had another three years
in the army.
333
00:24:27,870 --> 00:24:32,741
And suddenly,
at this stage of German boredom,
334
00:24:32,776 --> 00:24:36,811
I heard that volunteers
could take on
335
00:24:36,846 --> 00:24:40,947
two-or three-year contracts
with the army in Oman.
336
00:24:46,218 --> 00:24:49,153
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
337
00:24:51,025 --> 00:24:53,927
RAN: I volunteered.
338
00:24:53,962 --> 00:24:57,832
So did three or four
other officers.
339
00:24:57,867 --> 00:25:01,572
They were described as being
too valuable to the regiment,
340
00:25:01,607 --> 00:25:07,710
but my application was taken
up immediately with joy.
341
00:25:19,218 --> 00:25:21,658
MAN: (IN ARABIC)
342
00:25:23,189 --> 00:25:26,993
RAN: (IN ARABIC)
343
00:25:34,068 --> 00:25:35,166
(MAN SPEAKS ARABIC)
344
00:25:36,675 --> 00:25:41,744
RAN: (IN ARABIC)
345
00:25:44,177 --> 00:25:46,276
AHMED: (IN ARABIC)
346
00:25:51,217 --> 00:25:52,986
RAN: My particular job
347
00:25:53,021 --> 00:25:56,726
was with 60 Arabs and Baluchis
and no Brit.
348
00:25:59,324 --> 00:26:00,829
I would be called either Sahib
349
00:26:00,864 --> 00:26:03,062
or, if there were
no other officers around,
350
00:26:03,097 --> 00:26:05,031
they'd call me...
(SPEAKS ARABIC)
351
00:26:06,430 --> 00:26:08,397
I think it means John.
352
00:26:19,410 --> 00:26:23,082
Long time no driving
in this sort of condition.
353
00:26:23,117 --> 00:26:28,692
I have to say
that I just love it.
354
00:26:28,727 --> 00:26:31,387
The rougher the roads,
the better.
355
00:26:34,425 --> 00:26:38,735
We were finding new roads
in countryside like this
356
00:26:38,770 --> 00:26:41,397
and going up ramps,
steep, steep ramps.
357
00:26:41,432 --> 00:26:43,872
And 30 of us,
with axes and shovels,
358
00:26:43,907 --> 00:26:46,875
were making
impossible bits possible.
359
00:26:53,081 --> 00:26:56,379
We were a happy family.
360
00:26:56,414 --> 00:27:01,153
It just was wonderful
to be with these guys.
361
00:27:01,188 --> 00:27:04,189
Trusted by them
and trusting them.
362
00:27:04,224 --> 00:27:06,994
They were
wonderful human beings.
363
00:27:07,029 --> 00:27:12,065
We really just... I think the
word is "clicked", just clicked.
364
00:27:15,367 --> 00:27:19,941
I think looking back,
it's not popular...
365
00:27:19,976 --> 00:27:24,143
I wanted to fight the enemy,
the Communists.
366
00:27:24,178 --> 00:27:29,247
They were out to crush Islam
in Dhofar.
367
00:27:29,282 --> 00:27:31,480
(SHOUTING IN ARABIC)
368
00:27:31,515 --> 00:27:34,923
REPORTER: The Dhofar rebelsare mainly Marxists.
369
00:27:36,421 --> 00:27:38,058
When the rebellion began,
370
00:27:38,093 --> 00:27:40,324
their aim was simplythe overthrow
371
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,425
of a mediaeval tyrannyin Oman.
372
00:27:42,460 --> 00:27:44,735
Since then,the movement has the wider goal
373
00:27:44,770 --> 00:27:48,398
of sweeping away all thesheikdoms of the Persian Gulf.
374
00:27:48,433 --> 00:27:51,104
(SHOUTING IN ARABIC)
375
00:27:51,139 --> 00:27:54,338
RAN: Tribal leaders
had their backs burnt
376
00:27:54,373 --> 00:27:56,010
and their eyes put out
377
00:27:56,045 --> 00:27:59,409
and pushed over cliffs
to make an example of people
378
00:27:59,444 --> 00:28:05,415
who refused to switch
from Islam to Marxism.
379
00:28:05,450 --> 00:28:08,154
(GUNFIRE)
380
00:28:08,189 --> 00:28:11,960
We were outnumbered.
We were in enemy area.
381
00:28:11,995 --> 00:28:17,097
We were out-weaponed.
It was a frightening affair.
382
00:28:25,503 --> 00:28:28,372
The main change I made
when I arrived out here
383
00:28:28,407 --> 00:28:30,506
was to stop them moving by day.
384
00:28:38,615 --> 00:28:41,484
We became experts
at night movement.
385
00:28:43,829 --> 00:28:47,259
That is why we were chosen
for Operation Snatch.
386
00:28:51,364 --> 00:28:58,974
We had heard an enemy leader
was going to come into Dhofar,
387
00:28:59,009 --> 00:29:04,111
and we had very good information
where he was going to be.
388
00:29:04,146 --> 00:29:09,182
Ranulph was briefed on what
to do and where to go and so on,
389
00:29:09,217 --> 00:29:11,217
but during the approach,
390
00:29:11,252 --> 00:29:15,155
we heard that actually,
he was being set up.
391
00:29:16,422 --> 00:29:19,456
The leader wasn't going
to be coming in at all
392
00:29:19,491 --> 00:29:23,361
and it was the other way round,
they were gonna ambush us.
393
00:29:28,269 --> 00:29:34,075
I was asked to try and contact
him because I had radio to him,
394
00:29:34,110 --> 00:29:37,606
and, uh, I couldn't get through.
395
00:29:43,383 --> 00:29:47,220
RAN: I settled down
just beside the key track
396
00:29:47,255 --> 00:29:50,828
that these people would
be coming in by in the morning.
397
00:29:54,064 --> 00:29:56,493
We had an hour left before dawn
398
00:29:58,167 --> 00:30:00,629
and I was looking through
the bush like that,
399
00:30:00,664 --> 00:30:02,334
and they came along this way.
400
00:30:02,369 --> 00:30:09,473
I saw their political red stars
and I said... (SPEAKS ARABIC)
401
00:30:09,508 --> 00:30:13,884
Sorry, um,
"Hands up or you're dead."
402
00:30:13,919 --> 00:30:18,383
And the bloke swung his
Kalashnikov round really fast,
403
00:30:18,418 --> 00:30:20,286
and I found my finger
pressing the trigger.
404
00:30:20,321 --> 00:30:22,453
I'd never killed anybody
that close.
405
00:30:22,488 --> 00:30:26,589
I mean, I've shot at lots
of people in dust, rifle dust,
406
00:30:26,624 --> 00:30:30,098
along 600 yards away
and all that, in ambushes,
407
00:30:30,133 --> 00:30:32,562
but not as close as this.
408
00:30:32,597 --> 00:30:34,663
You know,
and seeing your face shot away
409
00:30:34,698 --> 00:30:37,435
and your nose pushed back
into your brain and so on.
410
00:30:37,470 --> 00:30:40,405
And I was quite young,
really, you know.
411
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,440
And it affected me
for a very long time.
412
00:30:47,953 --> 00:30:52,252
Not just in the week afterwards
but months later.
413
00:31:05,102 --> 00:31:08,466
At that time,
when all this was going on,
414
00:31:08,501 --> 00:31:11,139
I also had a good thing
going for me.
415
00:31:12,307 --> 00:31:14,604
I knew that when I got back,
416
00:31:14,639 --> 00:31:16,045
I was gonna marry the girl
417
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,344
who sort of steered me
to an alternate.
418
00:31:22,185 --> 00:31:25,219
I had known Ran
since I was nine and he was 12.
419
00:31:27,025 --> 00:31:28,222
We grew up together.
420
00:31:30,589 --> 00:31:32,655
We're really like
brother and sister.
421
00:31:32,690 --> 00:31:34,690
To me it's, you know,
probably the best way
422
00:31:34,725 --> 00:31:37,297
because you're friends
as well as everything else.
423
00:31:38,729 --> 00:31:41,598
(CHILDREN CHATTER)
424
00:31:44,801 --> 00:31:47,571
RAN: She had two brothers.
425
00:31:47,606 --> 00:31:52,675
They asked my mother if her son,
me, could go round for tea.
426
00:31:56,747 --> 00:32:00,254
We were playing with their
electric trains in the attic.
427
00:32:02,093 --> 00:32:06,623
And I felt a pin
in the back of my leg.
428
00:32:06,658 --> 00:32:10,231
Looked under the table,
and there she was.
429
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,302
I'd never seen a girl
as a girl before,
430
00:32:15,337 --> 00:32:17,304
and I felt just wonderful.
431
00:32:17,339 --> 00:32:21,176
(♪ "BOOM BOOM" BY THE LORDS)
432
00:32:27,613 --> 00:32:31,813
RAN: The first thing you saw
was very piercing blue eyes.
433
00:32:31,848 --> 00:32:34,750
The bluest. (CHUCKLES)
434
00:32:42,199 --> 00:32:45,629
I can remember telling him
to get on and meet her
435
00:32:45,664 --> 00:32:46,828
instead of hiding in the bushes,
436
00:32:46,863 --> 00:32:48,731
and let her ride by
on her horse, watching.
437
00:32:59,216 --> 00:33:01,084
He worshipped
the ground she walked on.
438
00:33:01,119 --> 00:33:05,517
JEAN: Yeah, he did.
And I think she did him, too.
439
00:33:07,092 --> 00:33:09,719
GINNY: We'd be sort of in
the history class or something
440
00:33:09,754 --> 00:33:12,590
and Ran would suddenly
appear at the window.
441
00:33:12,625 --> 00:33:14,262
I don't know
how he got up there,
442
00:33:14,297 --> 00:33:15,692
must have been the drainpipe.
443
00:33:15,727 --> 00:33:17,265
He eventually got caught
444
00:33:17,300 --> 00:33:20,235
and was pulled in through
the window and sent packing.
445
00:33:23,372 --> 00:33:25,636
RAN: Outside her house
in Sussex,
446
00:33:25,671 --> 00:33:28,771
we used to leave secret letters
in the tree.
447
00:33:31,116 --> 00:33:33,875
When you want to see me,
448
00:33:33,910 --> 00:33:39,089
leave a note hidden here.
449
00:33:39,124 --> 00:33:41,718
It's a tree stump
with a gnarled hole in it,
450
00:33:41,753 --> 00:33:43,753
and it's still there. (CHUCKLES)
451
00:33:43,788 --> 00:33:45,557
MATT:
And you keep it just there?
452
00:33:45,592 --> 00:33:50,199
Oh, no, I keep the bit of wood
just there, not the tree.
453
00:33:50,234 --> 00:33:52,531
PETER: When he got together
with Ginny,
454
00:33:52,566 --> 00:33:55,732
eventually,
that was a load of trouble.
455
00:33:55,767 --> 00:33:58,834
Her dad went apeshit.
456
00:33:58,869 --> 00:34:01,441
RAN: Her father
was not at all keen
457
00:34:01,476 --> 00:34:04,444
on me having anything
to do with her.
458
00:34:06,217 --> 00:34:08,910
Ginny's father thought
that the explosives
459
00:34:08,945 --> 00:34:10,417
had come from his quarry
460
00:34:10,452 --> 00:34:12,914
and that Ginny had pinched them
and given them to me.
461
00:34:12,949 --> 00:34:18,227
And that the police would find
this out and send her to prison.
462
00:34:18,262 --> 00:34:21,461
My father was convinced that Ran
would be the death of Ginny
463
00:34:21,496 --> 00:34:27,335
because he was, you know, a mad,
bad and dangerous-to-know boy.
464
00:34:27,370 --> 00:34:31,273
And little did he realise
that she was worse.
465
00:34:31,308 --> 00:34:35,310
It was Ginny who was gonna
dream up the wild expeditions.
466
00:34:35,345 --> 00:34:37,906
(♪ "CAN'T RUN BUT"
BY PAUL SIMON)
467
00:34:59,204 --> 00:35:02,271
I don't think Ran
could have done anything
468
00:35:02,306 --> 00:35:04,933
that he has done without Ginny.
469
00:35:04,968 --> 00:35:08,871
She certainly played a huge part
in his career
470
00:35:08,906 --> 00:35:10,939
and in his happiness too.
471
00:35:10,974 --> 00:35:14,184
A lot of the time they were
utterly penniless.
472
00:35:14,219 --> 00:35:17,880
He'd left the army with nothing.
He had no job.
473
00:35:17,915 --> 00:35:19,585
And there was no money.
474
00:35:19,620 --> 00:35:22,258
She was always
trying to think up things
475
00:35:22,293 --> 00:35:25,624
that Ran could do
to make some money.
476
00:35:25,659 --> 00:35:27,989
RAN: Ginny got onto
an actors' agency
477
00:35:28,024 --> 00:35:31,795
who wanted me to audition
for James Bond.
478
00:35:31,830 --> 00:35:35,370
Got into the last six.
Some other bloke got it.
479
00:35:35,405 --> 00:35:37,405
Roger Moore.
480
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,375
She kept him on track,
got him organised
481
00:35:40,410 --> 00:35:45,479
and opened the doors to get
a publisher for the first book.
482
00:35:54,952 --> 00:35:58,525
JILL: Ginny interpreted
the world for him.
483
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,265
She enabled him,
and she'd move heaven and earth
484
00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:05,433
to make sure whatever needed
to be done got done.
485
00:36:08,471 --> 00:36:11,868
RAN: Ginny realised
that doing hot expeditions
486
00:36:11,903 --> 00:36:15,278
wasn't ever going to get
sponsorship or media coverage.
487
00:36:18,415 --> 00:36:22,582
The media only wanted
polar stuff.
488
00:36:22,617 --> 00:36:26,047
She decided that if one's
gonna make any sort of income,
489
00:36:26,082 --> 00:36:29,787
we'd have to make a big entry
into the polar fraternity
490
00:36:29,822 --> 00:36:33,296
with the most impressive journey
she could think of.
491
00:36:49,446 --> 00:36:51,039
-Ah, Sir Ranulph.
-Hello, Admiral.
492
00:36:51,074 --> 00:36:52,678
You all right?
493
00:36:52,713 --> 00:36:53,976
-Come in.
-Good to see you.
494
00:36:54,011 --> 00:36:55,978
-You all right?
-In time for some fodder?
495
00:36:56,013 --> 00:36:58,255
Food, yeah. Are you are you OK?
496
00:36:59,951 --> 00:37:01,687
(GROANS)
497
00:37:03,724 --> 00:37:05,922
-So...
-How's the family?
498
00:37:05,957 --> 00:37:08,892
They're all right.
They're fine. Yeah.
499
00:37:08,927 --> 00:37:11,301
Do you want anything with that?
Ketchup or...
500
00:37:11,336 --> 00:37:14,062
-(SPEAKS GERMAN)
-Ja?
501
00:37:14,097 --> 00:37:17,307
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
502
00:37:17,342 --> 00:37:19,804
OK. (SPEAKS GERMAN)
503
00:37:19,839 --> 00:37:22,906
-There you have it.
-(SPEAKS GERMAN)
504
00:37:22,941 --> 00:37:25,414
-All right?
-Yeah, great.
505
00:37:25,449 --> 00:37:29,044
This is just perfect.
Well worth a five-hour journey.
506
00:37:29,079 --> 00:37:31,288
(LAUGHS)
507
00:37:36,361 --> 00:37:39,087
You haven't lost your touch,
cookie.
508
00:37:39,122 --> 00:37:41,694
-(ANTON LAUGHS)
-Very good.
509
00:37:43,929 --> 00:37:46,336
ANTON: Yeah, now I've got
loads of stuff
510
00:37:46,371 --> 00:37:49,097
to show you in my little room,
511
00:37:49,132 --> 00:37:51,440
my archive room.
512
00:37:51,475 --> 00:37:53,442
That is a piece of history,
that little globe,
513
00:37:53,477 --> 00:37:57,446
because that red line,
your Ginny...
514
00:37:57,481 --> 00:37:58,612
Yeah.
515
00:37:58,647 --> 00:38:00,944
She drew what she thought
was the best way
516
00:38:00,979 --> 00:38:04,585
of doing the first journey
around Earth, vertically,
517
00:38:04,620 --> 00:38:06,653
with her crayon.
518
00:38:06,688 --> 00:38:08,424
I used to take her out
from her school.
519
00:38:08,459 --> 00:38:11,053
That was her school globe
of the world. Yeah.
520
00:38:18,832 --> 00:38:20,898
NARRATOR:
No one had yet journeyed
521
00:38:20,933 --> 00:38:23,571
the Earth's surfacealong its polar axis.
522
00:38:23,606 --> 00:38:28,840
Encouraged by his wife Ginny,Ran Fiennes would try it.
523
00:38:30,173 --> 00:38:33,416
PRINCE CHARLES: It took
seven years to prepare for
524
00:38:33,451 --> 00:38:36,617
and will take another
three years to complete.
525
00:38:36,652 --> 00:38:37,783
When they return,
526
00:38:37,818 --> 00:38:41,050
the team will have
walked, sailed,
527
00:38:41,085 --> 00:38:44,955
driven and skied
more than 52,000 miles.
528
00:38:44,990 --> 00:38:47,562
It is
an extraordinary adventure,
529
00:38:47,597 --> 00:38:51,962
and in my opinion,
gloriously and refreshingly mad.
530
00:38:51,997 --> 00:38:53,832
CHRISTOPHER WENNER:
This is a polar expedition
531
00:38:53,867 --> 00:38:54,965
with a difference.
532
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,000
It's called
the Transglobe Expedition
533
00:38:57,035 --> 00:38:58,474
because it means to go
534
00:38:58,509 --> 00:39:01,477
both to North and the South
Poles in one journey.
535
00:39:01,512 --> 00:39:03,545
An expedition that sounds as if
536
00:39:03,580 --> 00:39:05,646
it's just come straight
out of the pages
537
00:39:05,681 --> 00:39:07,582
of Boy's Own magazine.
538
00:39:07,617 --> 00:39:08,880
And for a team that's led
539
00:39:08,915 --> 00:39:11,685
by Sir RanulphTwisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes,
540
00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:16,151
surely nothing is impossible,except perhaps his name.
541
00:39:17,220 --> 00:39:19,495
From a contemporary
point of view,
542
00:39:19,530 --> 00:39:26,634
you could say that this is
totally white privileged folly.
543
00:39:26,669 --> 00:39:30,704
There is something about him
that I think makes a lot of us
544
00:39:30,739 --> 00:39:31,969
want to just hug him
545
00:39:32,004 --> 00:39:35,137
and then grab him
by the collar and shake him.
546
00:39:35,172 --> 00:39:36,842
All in all,
an incredible journey
547
00:39:36,877 --> 00:39:38,976
and one which is going
to be shared by Ran
548
00:39:39,011 --> 00:39:41,682
and the others
on the expedition by a dog.
549
00:39:41,717 --> 00:39:42,914
WENNER: He's Bothie.
550
00:39:42,949 --> 00:39:45,653
And he's a Jack Russell,
and just 18 months old.
551
00:39:45,688 --> 00:39:49,151
And he's going to be
the expedition's mascot.
552
00:39:49,186 --> 00:39:51,252
Good boy, Bothie.
553
00:39:51,287 --> 00:39:54,123
He didn't have big wealth
to fall on.
554
00:39:54,158 --> 00:39:56,466
He had to raise every penny.
555
00:39:57,964 --> 00:40:02,065
Transglobe's, like,
a $27-million operation.
556
00:40:02,100 --> 00:40:04,969
The fuel alone is off the chart.
557
00:40:05,004 --> 00:40:08,170
How can you do that?
You can't do that.
558
00:40:08,205 --> 00:40:10,909
Well, he did it.
559
00:40:10,944 --> 00:40:13,549
REPORTER: More than650 companies around the world
560
00:40:13,584 --> 00:40:14,781
made this possible,
561
00:40:14,816 --> 00:40:17,487
supplying goods and services.
562
00:40:17,522 --> 00:40:21,953
In some ways, Transglobe waslike putting men on the moon.
563
00:40:21,988 --> 00:40:27,728
JEAN: Everything that they got
was sponsored or scavenged.
564
00:40:27,763 --> 00:40:29,224
PETER:
He's the world's best scavenger.
565
00:40:29,259 --> 00:40:31,094
JEAN: Yeah.
566
00:40:31,129 --> 00:40:34,834
RAN: Ginny and I started off
with no money at all.
567
00:40:35,771 --> 00:40:37,133
So, as a married couple,
568
00:40:37,168 --> 00:40:43,810
our rule was "never pay anybody
for anything at any time".
569
00:40:45,011 --> 00:40:47,044
We, or particularly Ginny,
570
00:40:47,079 --> 00:40:50,113
became very good
at convincing people
571
00:40:50,148 --> 00:40:52,148
to give large sums of money
572
00:40:52,183 --> 00:40:56,086
in return for publicity
for their company name.
573
00:40:56,891 --> 00:40:58,990
Quite simple, really.
574
00:41:01,599 --> 00:41:04,094
The whole principle
of the expedition
575
00:41:04,129 --> 00:41:06,030
was that nobody got paid.
576
00:41:08,166 --> 00:41:09,638
That was the mantra.
577
00:41:09,673 --> 00:41:12,938
It was the thing
that held it all together.
578
00:41:12,973 --> 00:41:15,941
Different people all willing
to work for nothing
579
00:41:15,976 --> 00:41:18,009
for something they believed in.
580
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,555
ANTON: This is the first letter
that I received from you,
581
00:41:25,590 --> 00:41:27,722
do you remember, when I applied
to join the expedition?
582
00:41:27,757 --> 00:41:29,691
-RAN: Amazing.
-(CHUCKLES)
583
00:41:29,726 --> 00:41:32,991
"Dear Mr Bowring, thank you for
your letter and your interest.
584
00:41:33,026 --> 00:41:36,324
We are looking for
a qualified, honest,
585
00:41:36,359 --> 00:41:41,032
non-union,
unpaid underlined crew.
586
00:41:41,067 --> 00:41:45,003
We are wanting to complete
scientific work from the trawler
587
00:41:45,038 --> 00:41:46,202
during the expedition.
588
00:41:46,237 --> 00:41:48,743
We are not wanting
photographers.
589
00:41:48,778 --> 00:41:53,044
Excuse this writing, but I'm
on a v shaky train to York.
590
00:41:53,079 --> 00:41:56,311
Yours sincerely, Ranulph
Fiennes, Expedition Leader."
591
00:41:56,346 --> 00:41:57,620
(LAUGHS)
592
00:41:57,655 --> 00:41:59,985
-Good heavens.
-Yeah.
593
00:42:00,020 --> 00:42:01,118
-Ready?
-Yeah.
594
00:42:05,861 --> 00:42:11,326
Ran is the hardiest, craziest,
595
00:42:11,361 --> 00:42:14,670
most insane person
596
00:42:14,705 --> 00:42:19,235
I have ever absolutely loved
working for.
597
00:42:21,811 --> 00:42:23,745
My boss at the time said,
598
00:42:23,780 --> 00:42:26,748
"Ran's well known.
He's a ruthless bastard."
599
00:42:26,783 --> 00:42:30,114
He chews up soldiers
and spits them out.
600
00:42:30,149 --> 00:42:34,349
But he's successful
because he's so driven.
601
00:42:34,384 --> 00:42:36,692
He never takes no for an answer.
602
00:42:39,994 --> 00:42:41,796
REPORTER:
Strong winds and currents,
603
00:42:41,831 --> 00:42:43,061
combined withheavy loads
604
00:42:43,096 --> 00:42:44,260
had put too great a strain
605
00:42:44,295 --> 00:42:46,735
on the inflatable boatsand their engines.
606
00:42:46,770 --> 00:42:48,803
RAN: What do you think it is,
Jack?
607
00:42:48,838 --> 00:42:52,268
Breakdownshad become commonplace.
608
00:42:52,303 --> 00:42:54,974
RAN: Obviously you've got
to have another sort of boat.
609
00:42:55,009 --> 00:42:58,010
This is what Ginny's,
you know, all about.
610
00:42:58,045 --> 00:43:00,276
We're now two or three days
behind the schedule
611
00:43:00,311 --> 00:43:01,310
instead of ahead of it.
612
00:43:01,345 --> 00:43:03,950
I asked her to get
a Boston whaler,
613
00:43:03,985 --> 00:43:06,282
and that they might cost
something like $13,000,
614
00:43:06,317 --> 00:43:08,020
to get big engines for them,
615
00:43:08,055 --> 00:43:10,352
but she mustn't spend
any money on doing it,
616
00:43:10,387 --> 00:43:12,024
and she must do it
within two weeks.
617
00:43:12,059 --> 00:43:13,421
After that, it was up to her.
618
00:43:13,456 --> 00:43:15,929
GINNY: Ran has decided to use
an 18-foot Boston whaler.
619
00:43:15,964 --> 00:43:18,668
Problem is, we need
an 18-foot Boston whaler.
620
00:43:18,703 --> 00:43:22,001
REPORTER: Within a week, Ginnyfinds a boat and a sponsor.
621
00:43:22,036 --> 00:43:25,334
RAN: ♪ Bowl of spaghetti
622
00:43:25,369 --> 00:43:29,338
♪ All covered in cheese
623
00:43:29,373 --> 00:43:33,848
♪ I lost my poor meatball
624
00:43:33,883 --> 00:43:36,785
♪ When somebody sneezed
625
00:43:38,987 --> 00:43:40,756
Anton.
626
00:43:40,791 --> 00:43:44,023
Amazing seeing it back
on the water again.
627
00:43:44,058 --> 00:43:48,060
Forty years
you've looked after it. (LAUGHS)
628
00:43:51,428 --> 00:43:53,296
I can remember the trouble
on the telephone
629
00:43:53,331 --> 00:43:55,771
trying to get them
free of charge.
630
00:43:55,806 --> 00:43:58,136
Ginny did. She had a good voice.
631
00:43:58,171 --> 00:44:01,040
Good at what they call
wheedling.
632
00:44:01,075 --> 00:44:02,404
(LAUGHS)
633
00:44:04,342 --> 00:44:06,980
(ENGINE STALLS)
634
00:44:07,015 --> 00:44:09,884
Whoops. Come on.
635
00:44:10,381 --> 00:44:12,722
(ENGINE STARTS)
636
00:44:12,757 --> 00:44:14,317
That's more like it.
637
00:44:40,983 --> 00:44:44,545
There's something about Ran
that makes people...
638
00:44:44,580 --> 00:44:47,350
put their lives in his hands.
639
00:44:49,585 --> 00:44:52,091
You have that, that feeling
that he will, you know,
640
00:44:52,126 --> 00:44:53,928
that he'll never let you down.
641
00:45:02,598 --> 00:45:06,270
He can talk to you in such a way
642
00:45:06,305 --> 00:45:08,404
that, I won't call it hypnosis,
643
00:45:08,439 --> 00:45:12,540
but you're mesmerised
by what he's saying
644
00:45:12,575 --> 00:45:14,014
and all of a sudden,
645
00:45:14,049 --> 00:45:18,117
you just want to do
these crazy things with him.
646
00:45:18,152 --> 00:45:20,581
PRINCE CHARLES: BenjaminBowring, this is Cove Radio.
647
00:45:20,616 --> 00:45:21,989
Do you read me? Over.
648
00:45:22,024 --> 00:45:23,793
BOWRING:
This is Benjamin Bowring.
649
00:45:23,828 --> 00:45:28,028
I have you loud and clear,Your Royal Highness.
650
00:45:28,063 --> 00:45:34,298
He wrote asking if I'd be at all
interested in helping, and...
651
00:45:34,333 --> 00:45:35,970
I obviously met him after that
652
00:45:36,005 --> 00:45:38,038
because I'm a sucker for those
sort of marvellous characters
653
00:45:38,073 --> 00:45:44,374
who are full of, you know,
enthusiasm and ingenuity.
654
00:45:44,409 --> 00:45:47,377
The great British eccentrics
really.
655
00:45:47,412 --> 00:45:50,578
And indeed he is one
of life's great eccentrics.
656
00:45:50,613 --> 00:45:52,415
-Hip hip.
-Hooray!
657
00:45:52,450 --> 00:45:54,384
-Hip hip.
-Hooray!
658
00:46:01,657 --> 00:46:03,228
ANTON: Are we gonna play Boggle?
659
00:46:03,263 --> 00:46:05,263
JILL: Go on then.
660
00:46:05,298 --> 00:46:07,034
-ANTON: OK.
-JILL: Right.
661
00:46:07,069 --> 00:46:09,036
ANTON: And what are we doing,
60 seconds?
662
00:46:09,071 --> 00:46:11,236
JILL: No, three minutes.
Soft-boiled egg.
663
00:46:11,271 --> 00:46:12,567
ANTON: That's a long time.
664
00:46:12,602 --> 00:46:16,010
JILL: No, by the time
you've written down 25 words...
665
00:46:16,045 --> 00:46:18,177
-ANTON: Twenty-five?
-(LAUGHS)
666
00:46:18,212 --> 00:46:20,311
ANTON:
Who can write down 25 words?
667
00:46:20,346 --> 00:46:22,412
I was thinking
about two or three.
668
00:46:22,447 --> 00:46:23,985
ANTON: Exactly.
669
00:46:24,020 --> 00:46:25,283
Are we ready?
670
00:46:25,318 --> 00:46:28,385
-Three, two, one, go.
-JILL: OK.
671
00:46:29,091 --> 00:46:30,552
ANTON: Oh, Lord.
672
00:46:30,587 --> 00:46:34,193
He cheats dreadfully
at card games.
673
00:46:34,228 --> 00:46:38,032
Hates children winning, and is
really good fun. Very good fun.
674
00:46:38,067 --> 00:46:39,902
-Ooh.
-(ALARM CHIMES)
675
00:46:39,937 --> 00:46:42,135
-Gay.
-RAN: Yes.
676
00:46:42,170 --> 00:46:43,631
Pan.
677
00:46:46,504 --> 00:46:48,603
Two, one, go.
678
00:46:53,951 --> 00:46:55,610
-Dent.
-JILL: Yes.
679
00:46:55,645 --> 00:47:00,054
-Man, M-A-N.
-Yeah, yeah.
680
00:47:00,089 --> 00:47:02,958
And then an umbrella,
which is a gamp.
681
00:47:05,061 --> 00:47:06,588
-Beg your pardon?
-(LAUGHS)
682
00:47:06,623 --> 00:47:09,129
-Mill. Did someone have mill?
-JILL: Yes, I had mill.
683
00:47:09,164 --> 00:47:10,197
-Right.
-JILL: What's a gamp?
684
00:47:10,232 --> 00:47:12,231
-ANTON: What is a gamp?
-Look it up on your thing.
685
00:47:12,266 --> 00:47:13,628
We can't.
686
00:47:13,663 --> 00:47:15,564
-We haven't got a signal.
-JILL: We haven't got a signal.
687
00:47:15,599 --> 00:47:18,237
ANTON: Is it an Eton word?
688
00:47:18,272 --> 00:47:21,372
-Is it slang?
-RAN: People at Eton use it,
689
00:47:21,407 --> 00:47:23,242
but that doesn't mean
no one else does.
690
00:47:23,277 --> 00:47:26,916
I mean, at my school
a bicycle was a bincy.
691
00:47:26,951 --> 00:47:29,050
-RAN: A bintry?
-ANTON: A bincy.
692
00:47:29,085 --> 00:47:31,514
We had very strange words
in my school.
693
00:47:31,549 --> 00:47:36,123
If you were a sort of slave boy,
you were called scum.
694
00:47:36,158 --> 00:47:40,292
Our lot went, "Boy!"
695
00:47:40,327 --> 00:47:41,997
I mean, for a long, long time
696
00:47:42,032 --> 00:47:45,627
and every little boy doing their
prep or whatever had to run.
697
00:47:45,662 --> 00:47:47,596
And one got beaten
by the senior boys.
698
00:47:47,631 --> 00:47:50,170
ANTON: You did. I did.
699
00:47:50,205 --> 00:47:52,073
It's always been said
of that school,
700
00:47:52,108 --> 00:47:54,273
it gives the students
tremendous confidence.
701
00:47:54,308 --> 00:47:57,177
They come out believing they can
do whatever they want to.
702
00:47:57,212 --> 00:47:59,740
-That wasn't the case for you?
-I was the opposite.
703
00:47:59,775 --> 00:48:04,481
When I went there, I think I had
lots of cocky self-confidence.
704
00:48:04,516 --> 00:48:06,285
I lost all that.
705
00:48:10,291 --> 00:48:13,358
I was apparently
a pretty boy aged 11,
706
00:48:13,393 --> 00:48:15,965
and they'd take the mickey.
707
00:48:17,133 --> 00:48:20,233
So-and-so has a crush
on that pretty boy
708
00:48:20,268 --> 00:48:21,696
and all the rest of it.
709
00:48:21,731 --> 00:48:27,075
Having had only women
who never bullied me,
710
00:48:27,110 --> 00:48:29,605
I didn't get good
at being nasty back.
711
00:48:31,444 --> 00:48:32,509
MARK LAWSON: And the boxing
712
00:48:32,544 --> 00:48:34,181
was a direct response
to the bullying.
713
00:48:34,216 --> 00:48:38,515
Yeah. It was,
to being pretty, um...
714
00:48:38,550 --> 00:48:43,652
Trying to be aggressive and
trying to be unpretty and big,
715
00:48:43,687 --> 00:48:45,588
boxing seemed to be
the right answer.
716
00:48:45,623 --> 00:48:47,392
And it worked pretty well,
I think.
717
00:48:52,795 --> 00:48:56,137
I don't think Ran likes
to be put into a set-up
718
00:48:56,172 --> 00:48:59,008
whereby, "Here's a guy
who went to Eton,
719
00:48:59,043 --> 00:49:01,538
he was an officer in the cavalry
and he was in the military."
720
00:49:03,443 --> 00:49:06,675
REPORTER: Headed by Sir RanulphTwisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes,
721
00:49:06,710 --> 00:49:11,482
Eton, the Royal Scots Greys andSpecial Air Service, retired.
722
00:49:11,517 --> 00:49:13,814
OLIVER: I remember
in the very early days
723
00:49:13,849 --> 00:49:16,025
when we started
doing interviews,
724
00:49:16,060 --> 00:49:17,323
Ran said to all of us,
725
00:49:17,358 --> 00:49:19,259
"For heaven's sake,
don't mention you went to Eton
726
00:49:19,294 --> 00:49:21,492
or don't mention
you went to a public school."
727
00:49:21,527 --> 00:49:23,725
-That one's good.
-Yeah, there's six black.
728
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,233
Six black, eleven blue
and four red.
729
00:49:27,302 --> 00:49:29,038
Right, sleeping bags, two.
730
00:49:29,073 --> 00:49:30,732
OLIVER:
Someone that's got a title
731
00:49:30,767 --> 00:49:32,437
and a triple-barrelled name,
732
00:49:32,472 --> 00:49:36,078
I mean, it's asking for trouble.
(LAUGHS)
733
00:49:36,113 --> 00:49:39,675
-MAN: You're a knight and you...
-Yeah, but I got born that way.
734
00:49:39,710 --> 00:49:42,216
You could have been born
that way.
735
00:49:42,251 --> 00:49:43,679
No, we haven't got any money.
736
00:49:45,617 --> 00:49:48,288
OLIVER: The press
really were pretty nasty to him
737
00:49:48,323 --> 00:49:49,718
on numerous occasions.
738
00:49:50,754 --> 00:49:51,852
He let it bounce off him
739
00:49:51,887 --> 00:49:54,063
but underneath,
you could see the scars,
740
00:49:54,098 --> 00:49:56,428
if I can put it that way.
741
00:49:56,463 --> 00:49:59,497
RAN: If people immediately
think, "Oh, he's a Sir,"
742
00:49:59,532 --> 00:50:00,861
that puts my hackles up.
743
00:50:00,896 --> 00:50:03,501
I cross it out whenever
I possibly can.
744
00:50:03,536 --> 00:50:05,668
I hate it, I really do.
745
00:50:05,703 --> 00:50:08,704
If you take a really good friend
like Robin Knox-Johnston,
746
00:50:08,739 --> 00:50:12,147
he uses the Sir and he
deserves it cos he earned it.
747
00:50:12,182 --> 00:50:14,413
I didn't earn a Sir at all.
748
00:50:14,448 --> 00:50:17,416
I got born with it
cos my dad had been killed,
749
00:50:17,451 --> 00:50:19,847
and he got it
because his dad had been killed.
750
00:50:19,882 --> 00:50:22,223
So, if you don't earn it,
why use it?
751
00:50:22,258 --> 00:50:24,093
Ran Fiennes is fine by me.
752
00:50:35,304 --> 00:50:38,767
Ran's journeys and exploits
753
00:50:38,802 --> 00:50:43,409
are his way of trying
to step out and go beyond.
754
00:50:44,742 --> 00:50:46,643
Come here, Ran.
755
00:50:46,678 --> 00:50:49,382
Ran, in terms of film-making,
756
00:50:49,417 --> 00:50:53,452
you're trying to look for some
kind of psychological meaning
757
00:50:53,487 --> 00:50:54,684
behind what's going on,
758
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:58,292
you're trying to find
some kind of conflict.
759
00:50:58,327 --> 00:51:00,327
And there wasn't any.
760
00:51:01,495 --> 00:51:02,692
Because these people,
761
00:51:02,727 --> 00:51:05,299
they won't stoop down to saying,
you know,
762
00:51:05,334 --> 00:51:08,599
"That motherfucker isn't
holding up his part of the job.
763
00:51:08,634 --> 00:51:12,537
And I hope somebody kicks him in
the balls till his nose bleeds."
764
00:51:12,572 --> 00:51:15,177
You know, those are
the lines we're looking for,
765
00:51:15,212 --> 00:51:16,871
you're not gonna get 'em.
766
00:51:18,413 --> 00:51:20,908
-MIKE: Wait second. Hit it.
-Got it.
767
00:51:22,978 --> 00:51:27,618
MIKE: And that was because
Ran never bad-mouthed anybody.
768
00:51:27,653 --> 00:51:31,391
You couldn't make
him disagreeable.
769
00:51:31,426 --> 00:51:34,163
He was always positive
solving problems.
770
00:51:37,267 --> 00:51:39,597
And then I kept saying,
"It's my fault.
771
00:51:39,632 --> 00:51:41,368
I'm doing something wrong.
772
00:51:41,403 --> 00:51:44,866
I'm not getting into
these guys."
773
00:51:44,901 --> 00:51:46,802
And these guys,
you don't get into 'em.
774
00:51:49,609 --> 00:51:52,181
You know,
he's the classic old Brit guy.
775
00:51:53,613 --> 00:51:55,877
This guy is so classy,
776
00:51:55,912 --> 00:51:59,584
you don't know that there's
anything even under the skin.
777
00:52:01,390 --> 00:52:04,424
You know, a piece of granite
778
00:52:05,559 --> 00:52:06,921
cut out of the same stuff
779
00:52:06,956 --> 00:52:09,594
from the skin all the way
to the heart.
780
00:52:15,932 --> 00:52:18,834
(WIND HOWLS)
781
00:52:32,289 --> 00:52:35,884
The great thing is that they've
achieved the Antarctic crossing.
782
00:52:35,919 --> 00:52:38,491
And that's a marvellous feather
in their caps.
783
00:52:38,526 --> 00:52:41,956
I thought it was enough,
that alone.
784
00:52:41,991 --> 00:52:46,928
But to go on and do the Arctic
is real, uh, bravery, I think.
785
00:52:49,966 --> 00:52:52,934
The Arctic is a real challenge
786
00:52:53,838 --> 00:52:55,937
and they're not in any way
787
00:52:55,972 --> 00:52:59,941
accepting
this next challenge lightly.
788
00:53:01,582 --> 00:53:04,583
I think this probably will be
the most difficult.
789
00:53:11,955 --> 00:53:14,362
RAN: I got brought up
with a religion,
790
00:53:15,497 --> 00:53:16,793
but it's not strong enough
791
00:53:16,828 --> 00:53:19,367
to deal with sort of gangrene
and crotch rot
792
00:53:19,402 --> 00:53:21,303
and all of that sort of stuff.
793
00:53:23,736 --> 00:53:28,442
So I have to invent my own way
of having a mental fight.
794
00:53:32,514 --> 00:53:36,285
And that is to say, people
I respected most in my life,
795
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:40,322
my father and my grandfather,
are watching me,
796
00:53:40,357 --> 00:53:43,754
and I must not give in,
I must not give in.
797
00:53:50,466 --> 00:53:53,995
I invite the ghosts into my head
so that they are there
798
00:53:54,030 --> 00:53:57,900
and I do not want
to let them down. Simple.
799
00:54:02,445 --> 00:54:07,283
When they said you shouldn't
leave before February 28th
800
00:54:08,649 --> 00:54:11,617
because it's too dark
to see properly
801
00:54:11,652 --> 00:54:14,818
and too cold to feel your toes,
they were right.
802
00:54:14,853 --> 00:54:17,326
They were all right.
803
00:54:17,361 --> 00:54:20,329
What are we doing?
We're cultivating arthritis.
804
00:54:25,666 --> 00:54:29,833
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
805
00:55:04,936 --> 00:55:07,376
(PHONE RINGS)
806
00:55:16,145 --> 00:55:18,112
MAN: Hello, Transglobe London.
807
00:55:20,149 --> 00:55:23,018
You're calling
from Resolute Bay, yes.
808
00:55:25,759 --> 00:55:29,893
You have, yes.
What is it, please?
809
00:55:29,928 --> 00:55:32,962
"My team has arrived
at the North Pole."
810
00:55:32,997 --> 00:55:34,700
Thanks very much.
811
00:55:48,683 --> 00:55:52,718
RAN:
812
00:55:59,628 --> 00:56:04,125
GINNY:
813
00:56:11,508 --> 00:56:15,136
(BIG BEN CHIMES)
814
00:56:15,171 --> 00:56:17,578
At last they've done it.
Thank goodness they have.
815
00:56:17,613 --> 00:56:19,712
It's something
for the country to be proud of.
816
00:56:19,747 --> 00:56:21,142
It's a wonderful achievement.
817
00:56:21,177 --> 00:56:23,716
They got a lot of guts
to go there, innit?
818
00:56:23,751 --> 00:56:26,147
-That's really kind of you.
-Open it now.
819
00:56:28,052 --> 00:56:30,756
It's an egg. An Easter egg.
820
00:56:30,791 --> 00:56:32,659
Fantastic.
821
00:56:32,694 --> 00:56:34,727
WOMAN: I think
they're very brave people.
822
00:56:34,762 --> 00:56:38,599
MAN: They're brave men,
there's no doubt about it.
823
00:56:38,634 --> 00:56:42,603
I'd say they're brave,
but they're still idiots.
824
00:56:45,608 --> 00:56:48,543
(CAR REVERSE BEEPING)
825
00:56:53,649 --> 00:56:55,484
RAN: I had 9,000 miles
on the clock.
826
00:56:55,519 --> 00:56:58,245
It's now got 280,000 miles
on the clock.
827
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,049
And it's still doing wonderful.
828
00:57:07,091 --> 00:57:10,257
It has got hieroglyphics
down both sides
829
00:57:10,292 --> 00:57:12,468
which make
it sort of picturesque.
830
00:57:13,064 --> 00:57:15,933
(CAR BEEPS)
831
00:57:26,209 --> 00:57:29,815
(CAR BEEPS)
832
00:57:29,850 --> 00:57:32,081
So, we're on the lookout
for exit signs,
833
00:57:32,116 --> 00:57:34,490
that is
the most important thing.
834
00:57:35,724 --> 00:57:37,119
PETER: We call him Mondeo Man.
835
00:57:37,154 --> 00:57:39,858
-JEAN: Yeah.
-He wears cars out.
836
00:57:39,893 --> 00:57:42,663
(JEAN LAUGHS)
837
00:57:42,698 --> 00:57:46,293
ANTON: I went driving with Ran
last year I think it was.
838
00:57:46,328 --> 00:57:47,866
It was terrifying.
839
00:57:47,901 --> 00:57:50,737
He had one hand over one eye
for some reason
840
00:57:50,772 --> 00:57:52,541
and was driving like that.
841
00:57:52,576 --> 00:57:54,576
(LAUGHS)
842
00:57:54,611 --> 00:57:57,942
PETER: Just went down
Earls Court Road the wrong way
843
00:57:57,977 --> 00:58:00,681
and I thought, "Bloody hell!"
you know.
844
00:58:00,716 --> 00:58:04,718
It was bum-clenching time.
845
00:58:04,753 --> 00:58:07,556
ANTON: He used to be sort of
honestly, you know,
846
00:58:07,591 --> 00:58:08,854
military in his driving,
847
00:58:08,889 --> 00:58:11,824
but now he's sort of
all over the place.
848
00:58:13,223 --> 00:58:15,223
(CAR HORN BLARES)
849
00:58:18,899 --> 00:58:21,295
RAN: Keeping awake is a problem,
850
00:58:21,330 --> 00:58:23,836
driving for ten hours at a time,
851
00:58:23,871 --> 00:58:26,839
sometimes longer,
doing what I do.
852
00:58:26,874 --> 00:58:28,940
So what I do, basically,
853
00:58:28,975 --> 00:58:33,043
is I administer a wake-up,
sort of like that,
854
00:58:33,078 --> 00:58:34,913
and it works maybe
for half an hour
855
00:58:34,948 --> 00:58:36,343
and then you have to stop.
856
00:58:38,655 --> 00:58:43,724
But the hotels round here
cost £300 for bed and breakfast.
857
00:58:43,759 --> 00:58:49,961
So at night time, one would go
into a place like that,
858
00:58:49,996 --> 00:58:53,932
get your sleeping bag out,
set your alarm clock
859
00:58:53,967 --> 00:58:56,330
and Bob's your uncle.
860
00:58:57,641 --> 00:59:00,070
I use the suits as curtains.
861
00:59:04,043 --> 00:59:08,243
(PHONE LINE RINGS)
862
00:59:10,984 --> 00:59:13,688
-Hello, mate. How are you doing?
-MATT: Hey, Will.
863
00:59:13,723 --> 00:59:17,989
WILL: I've worked with Ran now
probably about three years.
864
00:59:19,696 --> 00:59:24,732
The first time I met Ran,
yeah, it was, uh, interesting.
865
00:59:26,197 --> 00:59:28,296
Whoops.
866
00:59:28,331 --> 00:59:30,364
I don't wanna
run over a bicycle.
867
00:59:31,708 --> 00:59:33,400
WILL: I'd pulled up at the venue
868
00:59:33,435 --> 00:59:35,941
and I went to try
and find where he was.
869
00:59:35,976 --> 00:59:41,012
From across the car park,
I saw this half-naked old man
870
00:59:41,047 --> 00:59:44,114
bobbing up and down
in between the cars.
871
00:59:44,149 --> 00:59:45,247
(LAUGHS)
872
00:59:45,282 --> 00:59:47,953
And it was right then when
I realised,
873
00:59:47,988 --> 00:59:49,856
"Ah, this guy is crazy."
874
00:59:53,125 --> 00:59:54,388
-Hi, Will.
-Afternoon, Sir.
875
00:59:54,423 --> 00:59:56,665
-You know Matt?
-We've met on the phone.
876
00:59:56,700 --> 00:59:57,831
Hi, Matt. How you doing?
877
00:59:57,866 --> 01:00:00,801
-You wanna park up, don't you?
-Yeah.
878
01:00:00,836 --> 01:00:02,803
Actually, the entrance
is just there.
879
01:00:03,806 --> 01:00:05,300
WILL: There's been times, like,
880
01:00:05,335 --> 01:00:09,370
we'd have quite a serious
conversation about money.
881
01:00:09,405 --> 01:00:11,680
And then he says...
882
01:00:11,715 --> 01:00:14,980
-So, Will...
-"Will, what does woke mean?"
883
01:00:15,015 --> 01:00:17,015
(LAUGHS)
884
01:00:17,050 --> 01:00:18,885
What is... what is going on?
885
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:21,756
What is Ranulph Fiennes
asking me what "woke" means?
886
01:00:21,791 --> 01:00:24,220
(LAUGHS)
887
01:00:24,255 --> 01:00:26,893
This looks like solid chocolate.
888
01:00:29,898 --> 01:00:31,062
Mmm.
889
01:00:31,097 --> 01:00:34,362
You notice that I'm avoiding
the entire cake.
890
01:00:35,332 --> 01:00:37,937
MATT: Why is that?
891
01:00:37,972 --> 01:00:42,139
Well, if I just have the icing
and not the rest of the cake,
892
01:00:44,011 --> 01:00:47,474
my total chocolate input
is less.
893
01:00:50,985 --> 01:00:52,446
That's it.
894
01:00:53,757 --> 01:00:55,988
Put that in there.
895
01:00:57,453 --> 01:01:01,521
MARYCLARE: I think Ran
is the hero in his own story.
896
01:01:01,556 --> 01:01:04,359
If you find a photograph
of a frostbitten hand...
897
01:01:04,394 --> 01:01:06,867
MARYCLARE:
He is also the ringmaster.
898
01:01:06,902 --> 01:01:08,528
RAN: The most gory.
899
01:01:08,563 --> 01:01:11,003
(GASPING)
900
01:01:11,038 --> 01:01:14,270
(BEEPING)
901
01:01:20,817 --> 01:01:23,917
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
902
01:01:28,055 --> 01:01:31,089
NARRATOR: Ran and Charlie'sfinal challenge.
903
01:01:31,124 --> 01:01:33,058
To get off the frozen ocean
904
01:01:33,093 --> 01:01:36,325
across the increasinglytenuous ice.
905
01:01:45,171 --> 01:01:49,943
RAN:
906
01:02:05,554 --> 01:02:09,798
RAN: As the summer progressed,
the ice got more dangerous.
907
01:02:09,833 --> 01:02:12,427
I decided better
to find an ice floe
908
01:02:12,462 --> 01:02:15,397
which was big enough
to be fairly safe
909
01:02:15,432 --> 01:02:19,335
whilst there was still
a big one.
910
01:02:19,370 --> 01:02:23,504
We wanted our ice floe
to head off on a certain degree.
911
01:02:23,539 --> 01:02:26,540
Bloody ice floe
went where it wanted.
912
01:02:26,575 --> 01:02:29,048
(DOGS BARK)
913
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:36,550
Ginny was in North Greenland
and I flew out to join her.
914
01:02:37,058 --> 01:02:38,893
Go away.
915
01:02:38,928 --> 01:02:41,995
Benjamin Bowring, Benjamin
Bowring, Transglobe Nord.
916
01:02:42,030 --> 01:02:45,295
Benjamin Bowring, Benjamin
Bowring, Transglobe Nord.
917
01:02:45,330 --> 01:02:48,496
ANTON: The general consensus
amongst the experts
918
01:02:48,531 --> 01:02:52,434
was that it wouldn't be possible
to actually go with the ship
919
01:02:52,469 --> 01:02:54,843
to where they were
and pick them up.
920
01:02:54,878 --> 01:02:56,207
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
921
01:02:56,242 --> 01:03:00,145
The experts in London
and our committee in London
922
01:03:00,180 --> 01:03:02,048
felt that the aircraft should,
923
01:03:02,083 --> 01:03:03,984
while it could still land
on this ice floe,
924
01:03:04,019 --> 01:03:06,085
pick them up,
take them out of the Arctic,
925
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:09,891
and that would be the expedition
successfully concluded.
926
01:03:11,587 --> 01:03:15,259
RAN: At the very last moment
of the three-year expedition,
927
01:03:15,294 --> 01:03:16,865
and seven years' planning,
928
01:03:16,900 --> 01:03:21,331
to have it ruined by being
flown out was pretty dreadful.
929
01:03:26,602 --> 01:03:31,638
ANTON: The decision from
the committee to airlift you out
930
01:03:31,673 --> 01:03:35,983
was thwarted because Ginny
in her incredible way said,
931
01:03:36,018 --> 01:03:39,217
"I'm awfully sorry, Sir Evan,
I can't hear what you're saying.
932
01:03:39,252 --> 01:03:41,120
It's a very, very bad line.
933
01:03:41,155 --> 01:03:43,221
I'm losing you.
I'm sorry, I can't hear
934
01:03:43,256 --> 01:03:45,124
but I think you said
'press on'."
935
01:03:45,159 --> 01:03:47,357
-(LAUGHS)
-"And we shall, we shall.
936
01:03:47,392 --> 01:03:48,523
We'll get there in the end."
937
01:03:48,558 --> 01:03:51,328
-And she put the receiver down.
-Wonderful.
938
01:03:54,663 --> 01:04:00,073
RAN: Ginny used the ski-planes
to ask us our opinions.
939
01:04:03,078 --> 01:04:04,473
-Switch it on.
-CHARLES: It's always on.
940
01:04:04,508 --> 01:04:07,311
-It is on.
-GINNY: I've lost my cigarette.
941
01:04:07,346 --> 01:04:10,644
RAN: No, that's your cigarette.
I'm smoking it for you now.
942
01:04:10,679 --> 01:04:17,552
Now I agree to take personal
responsibility for my own life
943
01:04:17,587 --> 01:04:22,095
in not hopping onto the aircraft
while we have got the chance.
944
01:04:22,130 --> 01:04:24,064
And that's my opinion only,
945
01:04:24,099 --> 01:04:26,627
and so now for Charlie
to tell you his.
946
01:04:26,662 --> 01:04:28,365
CHARLIE: If I wanted
to get onto the plane,
947
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:29,498
which I don't want to do,
948
01:04:29,533 --> 01:04:31,269
because I think
it's so pointless.
949
01:04:31,304 --> 01:04:32,699
GINNY:
Well, the point is, Charlie,
950
01:04:32,734 --> 01:04:34,338
that the committee
have advised you.
951
01:04:34,373 --> 01:04:37,143
So they're saying
that you're risking
952
01:04:37,178 --> 01:04:39,376
leaving yourself floating out
953
01:04:39,411 --> 01:04:42,610
in the Arctic Ocean
forever and ever, amen.
954
01:04:42,645 --> 01:04:45,085
(RADIO STATIC)
955
01:04:51,126 --> 01:04:54,523
(WIND HOWLS)
956
01:04:57,429 --> 01:04:59,231
ANTON: About two months later,
957
01:04:59,266 --> 01:05:01,728
the aircraft
wasn't gonna be able to land.
958
01:05:01,763 --> 01:05:04,071
There's no way
they can be rescued.
959
01:05:06,570 --> 01:05:09,505
The ship had been trying
on occasions
960
01:05:09,540 --> 01:05:12,607
to get into the ice
and pick them up.
961
01:05:14,446 --> 01:05:16,281
It was impossible.
962
01:05:18,318 --> 01:05:20,956
We set out on another attempt.
963
01:05:31,100 --> 01:05:35,201
We're still going north-west.
Still going north-west now.
964
01:05:35,236 --> 01:05:37,269
ANTON: We pushed and shoved
and we got stuck.
965
01:05:37,304 --> 01:05:38,402
We waited a day or two.
966
01:05:39,801 --> 01:05:43,979
The ice closed in behind us.
We pushed on again.
967
01:05:50,713 --> 01:05:54,649
We got to a position
where the aircraft flew overhead
968
01:05:56,158 --> 01:05:58,653
and it can see Ran and Charlie
in their camp,
969
01:05:58,688 --> 01:06:01,359
and it can see us
at the same time.
970
01:06:04,100 --> 01:06:07,266
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
971
01:06:13,109 --> 01:06:14,603
RAN: They sent a message,
972
01:06:14,638 --> 01:06:17,639
"We are X miles away from you.
Come at once."
973
01:06:17,674 --> 01:06:19,806
We couldn't see the ship.
974
01:06:28,322 --> 01:06:31,686
The two of us
were ridiculously weak by then.
975
01:06:34,625 --> 01:06:37,230
We were beginning to despair.
976
01:06:38,893 --> 01:06:43,104
Saw two matchsticks
in the white horizon.
977
01:06:43,139 --> 01:06:44,864
The masts.
978
01:06:44,899 --> 01:06:47,834
And, you know, it even now
979
01:06:47,869 --> 01:06:49,440
makes me emotional
to think of it.
980
01:06:53,347 --> 01:06:56,480
Failure was so close.
981
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:09,229
The moment
of getting on the ship...
982
01:07:13,466 --> 01:07:18,238
yeah, and seeing Ginny
was amazing, yeah.
983
01:07:42,759 --> 01:07:44,924
REPORTER:
On a sunny August Sunday,
984
01:07:44,959 --> 01:07:46,662
thousands come to Greenwich
985
01:07:46,697 --> 01:07:49,731
to greet the first mento circumnavigate the Earth
986
01:07:49,766 --> 01:07:51,568
via the South and North Poles.
987
01:07:51,603 --> 01:07:52,800
REPORTER 2: It was an adventure
988
01:07:52,835 --> 01:07:54,439
which took three yearsto complete.
989
01:07:54,474 --> 01:07:56,738
The planningbegan ten years ago.
990
01:07:56,773 --> 01:07:59,279
They've broken records,defied those who said
991
01:07:59,314 --> 01:08:01,908
they had neither the numbersnor the equipment...
992
01:08:01,943 --> 01:08:04,317
GINNY: I didn't want
anything out of it myself.
993
01:08:04,352 --> 01:08:07,716
I haven't really any personal
ambitions, so to speak.
994
01:08:07,751 --> 01:08:10,191
I'm really just, you know,
a housewife.
995
01:08:12,822 --> 01:08:16,395
PRINCE CHARLES: Ginny was such
an incredible support to him.
996
01:08:16,430 --> 01:08:17,792
She was absolutely crucial.
997
01:08:17,827 --> 01:08:20,663
She did so much of the work
with the communications.
998
01:08:20,698 --> 01:08:24,172
She was ceaseless,
absolutely ceaseless.
999
01:08:25,274 --> 01:08:26,603
And if it hadn't been for her,
1000
01:08:26,638 --> 01:08:29,276
I don't think any of this
would have happened, really.
1001
01:09:05,281 --> 01:09:11,318
RAN: I always wanted what Ginny
wanted, which was children.
1002
01:09:13,355 --> 01:09:18,457
We had decided one boy
and one girl would be ideal.
1003
01:09:21,495 --> 01:09:25,200
We worked so hard
at having children.
1004
01:09:26,797 --> 01:09:32,867
For 17 years,
we went to IVF people.
1005
01:09:32,902 --> 01:09:37,410
And when that didn't work,
we decided that we would adopt.
1006
01:09:38,941 --> 01:09:40,908
GINNY:
Helping the chimney sweep.
1007
01:09:42,417 --> 01:09:46,782
RAN: We were told
we were doing expeditions.
1008
01:09:46,817 --> 01:09:49,521
We didn't have
a dependable income.
1009
01:09:54,792 --> 01:09:57,925
Ginny was very, very upset.
1010
01:10:07,706 --> 01:10:11,477
-ANTON: Um, Ran, coffee?
-RAN: Yeah.
1011
01:10:11,512 --> 01:10:13,314
ANTON: Right, two coffees.
1012
01:10:18,079 --> 01:10:21,322
Gosh, I haven't been here
for years.
1013
01:10:21,357 --> 01:10:24,655
When they first got the house,
we used to come and visit.
1014
01:10:24,690 --> 01:10:26,756
It was a very long time ago
1015
01:10:26,791 --> 01:10:30,023
cos my girls
are all in their thirties
1016
01:10:30,058 --> 01:10:33,829
and when we were here,
they were tiny little people.
1017
01:10:33,864 --> 01:10:36,865
(CHILDREN CHATTER)
1018
01:10:42,642 --> 01:10:46,006
-(CHILD LAUGHS)
-Mummy, look!
1019
01:10:46,041 --> 01:10:49,317
ANTON: We used to have the most
amazing Christmases here.
1020
01:10:49,352 --> 01:10:54,355
RAN: Oh, look, the moment
of maximum impact.
1021
01:10:55,787 --> 01:10:57,457
A blue flame.
1022
01:10:57,987 --> 01:10:59,855
A purple fire.
1023
01:11:02,794 --> 01:11:04,332
That's cute.
1024
01:11:04,994 --> 01:11:07,027
He called me Miniature.
1025
01:11:07,062 --> 01:11:10,833
Ginny was Big Ginny
and I was Miniature.
1026
01:11:10,868 --> 01:11:14,837
And, you know, they were always,
always part of our lives.
1027
01:11:14,872 --> 01:11:18,478
The pair of them
were like second parents to us.
1028
01:11:18,513 --> 01:11:21,580
We were told off by them.
1029
01:11:21,615 --> 01:11:22,812
She would bark at anyone,
1030
01:11:22,847 --> 01:11:25,353
she would call herself
the Witch of Exmoor.
1031
01:11:25,388 --> 01:11:28,917
The wickedest,
sort of, sense of humour.
1032
01:11:28,952 --> 01:11:31,887
(CHILDREN LAUGH)
1033
01:11:31,922 --> 01:11:33,592
Life was just never boring
1034
01:11:33,627 --> 01:11:36,958
when you were spending time
with the Fienneses.
1035
01:11:36,993 --> 01:11:39,796
They were definitely more family
1036
01:11:39,831 --> 01:11:42,931
than aunts and uncles
and cousins.
1037
01:11:42,966 --> 01:11:46,836
He really is just a really
big child. Absolutely great fun.
1038
01:11:48,004 --> 01:11:50,741
Stupid dog.
1039
01:11:50,776 --> 01:11:53,645
ANTON: The worst thing
throughout his life
1040
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:57,385
was that
he didn't have children.
1041
01:11:57,420 --> 01:12:00,883
The best thing that ever
happened to Ran for his career
1042
01:12:00,918 --> 01:12:03,457
was that he didn't
have children.
1043
01:12:03,492 --> 01:12:05,789
-(PHONE RINGS)
-(DOG BARKS)
1044
01:12:05,824 --> 01:12:07,087
RAN: At some point,
1045
01:12:07,122 --> 01:12:10,596
after we got back from
Transglobe, the phone goes.
1046
01:12:10,631 --> 01:12:13,896
It was this guy Dr Hammer
who'd sponsored our expedition.
1047
01:12:13,931 --> 01:12:17,834
Dr Hammer was so impressed,
he took me on as his gofer.
1048
01:12:22,874 --> 01:12:24,643
(PHONE RINGS)
1049
01:12:27,010 --> 01:12:29,483
When he came into the office,
I said to him,
1050
01:12:29,518 --> 01:12:32,145
"Ran, you do look
a little bit nervous."
1051
01:12:32,180 --> 01:12:36,952
He said, "Yeah, well, it's my
first office job in 40 years."
1052
01:12:36,987 --> 01:12:40,659
I'll call you back.
Call you back next Monday, OK?
1053
01:12:40,694 --> 01:12:42,892
Ideally next Friday.
1054
01:12:42,927 --> 01:12:47,094
ALEX: He used to train avidly
during his lunch-break
1055
01:12:47,129 --> 01:12:52,066
by packing copies of Dr Hammer's
biography into a rucksack
1056
01:12:52,101 --> 01:12:54,838
and then running up and down
the stairs
1057
01:12:54,873 --> 01:12:56,510
of his office building.
1058
01:12:56,545 --> 01:12:58,545
RAN: I worked for him
for ten years.
1059
01:12:58,580 --> 01:13:00,976
When he took me on,
Dr Hammer said,
1060
01:13:01,011 --> 01:13:03,077
"Three months every year
I'll pay you
1061
01:13:03,112 --> 01:13:05,453
and you can go
and do an expedition."
1062
01:13:05,488 --> 01:13:07,180
What could be luckier?
1063
01:13:16,697 --> 01:13:19,764
When we went back towards
the North Pole,
1064
01:13:19,799 --> 01:13:21,029
it was in the '80s.
1065
01:13:21,064 --> 01:13:23,735
The thing that really hit
Ran and myself
1066
01:13:23,770 --> 01:13:25,770
was how the ice had changed.
1067
01:13:27,235 --> 01:13:29,642
There was a lot more
open water around.
1068
01:13:30,942 --> 01:13:34,075
The ice was not nearly as thick
1069
01:13:34,110 --> 01:13:36,715
and the temperatures were
a little bit kind of warmer.
1070
01:13:36,750 --> 01:13:39,784
They were minus 35
as opposed to minus 50.
1071
01:13:39,819 --> 01:13:41,489
And that makes a big difference.
1072
01:13:41,524 --> 01:13:45,526
(♪ "HURDY GURDY MAN"
BY DONOVAN)
1073
01:13:45,561 --> 01:13:47,220
You said last time you were here
1074
01:13:47,255 --> 01:13:49,992
that if this one didn't work,
never again.
1075
01:13:50,027 --> 01:13:51,224
That's correct, yeah.
1076
01:13:51,259 --> 01:13:53,160
-What happened?
-I changed my mind.
1077
01:13:53,195 --> 01:13:54,964
(WOMAN LAUGHS)
1078
01:13:55,833 --> 01:13:57,571
MAN: It must be
a tantalising feeling.
1079
01:13:57,606 --> 01:14:00,167
You got within a hair's breadth
of the Pole.
1080
01:14:00,202 --> 01:14:02,873
Tantalising. Very frustrating.
1081
01:14:12,852 --> 01:14:16,183
He really wanted
to get there first.
1082
01:14:16,218 --> 01:14:19,219
There'd be a phone call saying,
"What do you think?
1083
01:14:19,254 --> 01:14:20,528
What do we do different?
1084
01:14:20,563 --> 01:14:22,827
What, where, how do we go?
Let's go again."
1085
01:14:26,998 --> 01:14:28,162
RAN:
1086
01:14:28,197 --> 01:14:30,230
FLO:
1087
01:14:30,265 --> 01:14:33,134
RAN: Failing on the way
to the North Pole
1088
01:14:33,169 --> 01:14:34,839
is something you can keep doing
1089
01:14:34,874 --> 01:14:38,073
cos the other people
are failing too.
1090
01:14:38,108 --> 01:14:39,910
JEREMY PAXMAN:
Frostbitten, half-starved
1091
01:14:39,945 --> 01:14:41,109
and more dead than alive,
1092
01:14:41,144 --> 01:14:42,748
the polar explorer,Sir Ranulph Fiennes,
1093
01:14:42,783 --> 01:14:44,552
and Dr Michael Stroudtucked into
1094
01:14:44,587 --> 01:14:46,818
a hearty breakfastof eggs this morning.
1095
01:14:46,853 --> 01:14:48,853
This time I have no reason
1096
01:14:48,888 --> 01:14:53,220
for feeling any more confident
than previous times
1097
01:14:53,255 --> 01:14:55,123
other than a sort of hunch.
1098
01:15:01,329 --> 01:15:03,230
Thermos and mug.
1099
01:15:03,265 --> 01:15:05,298
WOMAN:
1100
01:15:08,006 --> 01:15:09,775
WOMAN: OK. (LAUGHS)
1101
01:15:18,016 --> 01:15:19,345
ANTON: He hates it
when other people
1102
01:15:19,380 --> 01:15:21,050
do something
that he hasn't done.
1103
01:15:23,153 --> 01:15:28,156
He likes to be the one in front
in almost all circumstances.
1104
01:15:33,900 --> 01:15:37,033
(WIND HOWLS)
1105
01:15:47,210 --> 01:15:52,081
RAN: Mike and I knew we must
avoid always trying to do solos.
1106
01:15:52,116 --> 01:15:54,248
But because
we were always trying
1107
01:15:54,283 --> 01:15:56,019
to break the newest record,
1108
01:15:56,054 --> 01:15:58,120
and the Norwegians
had beaten us,
1109
01:15:58,155 --> 01:16:01,156
well, we didn't believe
they had,
1110
01:16:01,191 --> 01:16:03,961
unsupported with two people,
1111
01:16:03,996 --> 01:16:07,767
the record was nobody had done
it unsupported with one person.
1112
01:16:11,135 --> 01:16:15,137
I don't like solo expeditions.
I just don't.
1113
01:16:15,172 --> 01:16:18,008
I think there's too many
parameters that can go wrong
1114
01:16:18,043 --> 01:16:20,142
and it can be pretty sort of...
1115
01:16:21,750 --> 01:16:24,146
(SIGHS) ...terminal.
1116
01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:34,321
I did the communications
for him.
1117
01:16:34,356 --> 01:16:37,159
And he called me on the radio...
1118
01:16:41,704 --> 01:16:44,298
And I picked it up.
It was like, "Hi, Ran."
1119
01:16:44,333 --> 01:16:49,809
And I heard this voice
and I'd never heard him scared.
1120
01:16:49,844 --> 01:16:53,340
Normally it's, "Hello, Flo.
Yes, blah, blah, blah, blah."
1121
01:16:53,375 --> 01:16:57,179
And this was more like,
"Yeah, I got a problem here."
1122
01:16:57,214 --> 01:16:59,885
And he,
I could tell it in his voice,
1123
01:16:59,920 --> 01:17:03,185
he was still being his
methodical, professional self,
1124
01:17:03,220 --> 01:17:06,287
but I could tell
that he was seriously hurt.
1125
01:17:08,863 --> 01:17:11,160
RAN: Everything went wrong.
1126
01:17:11,195 --> 01:17:13,030
The sledge fell into the water
1127
01:17:13,065 --> 01:17:16,033
and everything vital
was on board, you know.
1128
01:17:17,036 --> 01:17:20,235
I managed to slide down,
1129
01:17:20,270 --> 01:17:24,008
grab the sledge, which was
now sinking in the water,
1130
01:17:24,043 --> 01:17:25,845
managed to pull it out.
1131
01:17:27,079 --> 01:17:28,881
My hands got wet.
1132
01:17:28,916 --> 01:17:32,379
Very quickly I lost
all feeling in both hands.
1133
01:17:34,119 --> 01:17:38,385
That was a desperate situation.
Very desperate.
1134
01:17:40,125 --> 01:17:43,456
It was about a week later
I managed to get to a hospital.
1135
01:17:57,406 --> 01:17:59,241
REPORTER:
He's triumphed over adversity
1136
01:17:59,276 --> 01:18:01,749
in some of the mostremote places in world
1137
01:18:01,784 --> 01:18:04,884
but today, simply openinga letter is a struggle.
1138
01:18:04,919 --> 01:18:07,018
Sir Ranulph Fienneswill lose the tips
1139
01:18:07,053 --> 01:18:09,185
of four of his fingerson his left hand.
1140
01:18:09,220 --> 01:18:13,486
RAN: The surgeons will cut, um,
a bit below the mummified areas
1141
01:18:13,521 --> 01:18:16,423
in order to have skin
to put over the new stumps.
1142
01:18:16,458 --> 01:18:19,096
MAN: You're very stoic
about it all.
1143
01:18:19,131 --> 01:18:20,229
No, I mean,
it's, you know,
1144
01:18:20,264 --> 01:18:22,396
there's no point in crying
over spilt milk.
1145
01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:27,467
-MATT: Faithful old shed?
-Yeah.
1146
01:18:29,207 --> 01:18:31,240
Forty years. (CHUCKLES)
1147
01:18:34,542 --> 01:18:39,182
The amputation was fixed
but not for five months.
1148
01:18:39,217 --> 01:18:42,086
And every time I touched
something, it was agony.
1149
01:18:42,121 --> 01:18:44,550
Ginny said, "Well,
you're getting very irritable."
1150
01:18:44,585 --> 01:18:46,255
Which I was.
1151
01:18:46,290 --> 01:18:49,522
So, we got
a Black and Decker workbench.
1152
01:18:49,557 --> 01:18:55,066
Put your hand in it. Ginny would
tighten up so it couldn't move.
1153
01:18:55,101 --> 01:18:59,070
Start that way,
turn it through about that much.
1154
01:18:59,105 --> 01:19:02,040
Try a bit more,
then try a bit more
1155
01:19:02,075 --> 01:19:05,505
until you've gone
right the way round.
1156
01:19:05,540 --> 01:19:09,113
It did sort of rather hurt
because of getting too close in,
1157
01:19:09,148 --> 01:19:12,512
but after a bit,
you get good at doing it.
1158
01:19:12,547 --> 01:19:17,022
That one and that one,
made a bit of a botch-up job.
1159
01:19:17,057 --> 01:19:20,157
That one, because
of the big bone in the middle,
1160
01:19:20,192 --> 01:19:21,829
that took over a day.
1161
01:19:51,520 --> 01:19:54,191
Beautiful. No rain.
1162
01:19:56,063 --> 01:19:59,834
Hardly believe it's Wales.
(LAUGHS)
1163
01:20:07,536 --> 01:20:10,438
No matter what you might
have done in the past,
1164
01:20:13,113 --> 01:20:15,146
when age catches up with you,
1165
01:20:15,181 --> 01:20:18,017
your teeth, your eyes,
your ears,
1166
01:20:20,582 --> 01:20:24,617
then obviously, if you're human,
you're gonna object.
1167
01:20:24,652 --> 01:20:27,587
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1168
01:20:35,938 --> 01:20:38,499
RAN: The mind
wants to do things,
1169
01:20:40,569 --> 01:20:45,506
but then suddenly finds that
your body's falling to bits.
1170
01:20:45,541 --> 01:20:49,411
-Bear, good to see you again.
-Well done. You're such a star.
1171
01:20:49,446 --> 01:20:53,184
-You been OK?
-Yeah, I'm... If you feel that.
1172
01:20:53,219 --> 01:20:56,517
That's not muscle,
that's a heart... blood...
1173
01:20:56,552 --> 01:20:59,190
-Oh, my God!
-From Cromwell Hospital.
1174
01:20:59,225 --> 01:21:00,587
They wouldn't let me out.
1175
01:21:00,622 --> 01:21:03,029
So I said, "If you let me
wear the thing for 24 hours..."
1176
01:21:03,064 --> 01:21:04,426
There's a battery in there.
1177
01:21:04,461 --> 01:21:07,429
These are plugged
into heart plugs,
1178
01:21:07,464 --> 01:21:09,530
or whatever you call them.
1179
01:21:09,565 --> 01:21:12,071
And after this, we've gotta
return all their stuff
1180
01:21:12,106 --> 01:21:14,337
to Cromwell Hospital
on the way home.
1181
01:21:14,372 --> 01:21:15,602
You're unbelievable.
1182
01:21:15,637 --> 01:21:18,308
They won't insure you
for anything when...
1183
01:21:18,343 --> 01:21:20,343
So, are you meant
to be there now?
1184
01:21:20,378 --> 01:21:22,147
Yes. For 24 hours, yeah.
1185
01:21:40,563 --> 01:21:42,629
Those were the days.
1186
01:21:48,736 --> 01:21:52,540
MATT: Do you think there is
a heaven, a hell and all that?
1187
01:21:52,575 --> 01:21:55,147
RAN: Maybe, maybe not.
1188
01:21:55,182 --> 01:21:59,052
I used to be frightened
of death.
1189
01:22:02,585 --> 01:22:07,555
But ever since I had
a massive heart attack,
1190
01:22:07,590 --> 01:22:09,557
which I didn't feel,
no pain at all.
1191
01:22:09,592 --> 01:22:13,066
I just suddenly woke up
three and a half days later
1192
01:22:13,101 --> 01:22:17,037
and Ginny told me
in the hospital bed with wires,
1193
01:22:17,072 --> 01:22:19,402
"You had a heart attack
three days ago,
1194
01:22:19,437 --> 01:22:22,207
on an aeroplane,
which hadn't taken off,
1195
01:22:22,242 --> 01:22:24,407
and you were taken to the A&E."
1196
01:22:24,442 --> 01:22:28,279
And so I knew
that I had been dead
1197
01:22:28,314 --> 01:22:31,381
for three days and nights.
1198
01:22:31,416 --> 01:22:34,186
And how many angels
did I see? None.
1199
01:22:34,221 --> 01:22:38,223
It was just complete
wonderful nothingness.
1200
01:22:42,064 --> 01:22:43,624
Thirteen times
your heart stopped?
1201
01:22:43,659 --> 01:22:45,230
Thirteen times my heart stopped.
1202
01:22:45,265 --> 01:22:47,562
And they told her if they did
manage to resuscitate me,
1203
01:22:47,597 --> 01:22:50,730
I'd probably have
some sort of brain damage.
1204
01:22:50,765 --> 01:22:53,304
She later said that didn't
make much difference.
1205
01:22:56,408 --> 01:23:02,709
My problem was that I was due
to do a major project
1206
01:23:02,744 --> 01:23:06,053
with a friend of mine,
Dr Michael Stroud.
1207
01:23:06,088 --> 01:23:11,553
Seven marathons on seven
continents in seven days.
1208
01:23:11,588 --> 01:23:14,622
This had to start
only three and a half months
1209
01:23:14,657 --> 01:23:16,360
after the operation.
1210
01:23:17,858 --> 01:23:24,830
I got a phone call from Ran
on the intensive care unit
1211
01:23:24,865 --> 01:23:27,701
and, you know,
he basically said,
1212
01:23:27,736 --> 01:23:31,573
"Don't cancel the marathons.
1213
01:23:31,608 --> 01:23:36,413
They're telling me that my heart
wasn't much damaged."
1214
01:23:36,448 --> 01:23:39,482
Sir Ranulph, who had
heart bypass surgery in June,
1215
01:23:39,517 --> 01:23:42,320
is raising money for
the British Heart Foundation.
1216
01:23:43,686 --> 01:23:48,755
RAN: The choice was slightly
not selfish but personal.
1217
01:23:48,790 --> 01:23:53,100
The British Heart Foundation
had saved my life.
1218
01:23:53,135 --> 01:23:55,432
-(BLOWS WHISTLE)
-Go, guys.
1219
01:24:03,706 --> 01:24:05,244
REPORTER: Sir Ranulph Fiennes
1220
01:24:05,279 --> 01:24:07,576
and fellow Antarctic explorer,
Dr Mike Stroud,
1221
01:24:07,611 --> 01:24:10,414
are trying something
no one's ever attempted.
1222
01:24:10,449 --> 01:24:12,647
If they complete
all seven marathons,
1223
01:24:12,682 --> 01:24:15,650
they'll have run 183.4 miles
1224
01:24:15,685 --> 01:24:19,588
and travelled 45,000 miles
by air.
1225
01:24:19,623 --> 01:24:21,656
WOMAN: There are gonna be people
watching this
1226
01:24:21,691 --> 01:24:25,759
and listening to you thinking
what you're doing is suicidal.
1227
01:24:25,794 --> 01:24:27,563
RAN: I didn't want
to push myself.
1228
01:24:27,598 --> 01:24:29,664
I didn't want to, at any point,
1229
01:24:29,699 --> 01:24:33,305
have my heart beating more
than a 130 beats a minute.
1230
01:24:33,340 --> 01:24:34,636
WOMAN: Did it?
1231
01:24:34,671 --> 01:24:38,145
I forgot to take
the pulse machine,
1232
01:24:38,180 --> 01:24:40,213
so I don't know whether it did
or it didn't.
1233
01:24:40,248 --> 01:24:41,412
You forgot to bring that?
1234
01:24:41,447 --> 01:24:43,447
Isn't that a vital piece
of equipment?
1235
01:24:43,482 --> 01:24:45,317
Yeah, that was very stupid.
1236
01:24:50,555 --> 01:24:53,589
Ran was doing
his seven marathons,
1237
01:24:53,624 --> 01:24:56,724
which was batty, really.
1238
01:24:58,695 --> 01:24:59,760
Ginny was gonna come up
1239
01:24:59,795 --> 01:25:01,927
and watch him
do the one in London.
1240
01:25:04,734 --> 01:25:07,240
-But she didn't come.
-We're off.
1241
01:25:07,275 --> 01:25:08,439
(CHEERING)
1242
01:25:08,474 --> 01:25:09,935
Good luck!
1243
01:25:13,215 --> 01:25:15,413
FIONA: So I rang her up
that evening.
1244
01:25:17,285 --> 01:25:20,649
"Why didn't you come?" She said,
"Oh, well, I had backache."
1245
01:25:22,653 --> 01:25:24,257
Anyway, I rang her up
the next day
1246
01:25:24,292 --> 01:25:25,753
and said,
"How is your backache?"
1247
01:25:25,788 --> 01:25:28,492
She said,
"Well, it wasn't backache."
1248
01:25:29,792 --> 01:25:32,892
So I said, "Well, Ginny,
for goodness' sake,
1249
01:25:32,927 --> 01:25:34,795
why don't I come down
and pick you up?
1250
01:25:34,830 --> 01:25:36,632
And I can bring you back
to London
1251
01:25:36,667 --> 01:25:38,799
and be there
when Ran comes back."
1252
01:25:40,737 --> 01:25:46,807
Um, and she said, "No, I can't.
But you mustn't tell him."
1253
01:25:48,041 --> 01:25:49,942
So it was simply awful.
1254
01:25:51,649 --> 01:25:54,254
But that's the way
she wanted to do it.
1255
01:26:11,966 --> 01:26:16,441
RAN: I can remember it
very, very clearly indeed.
1256
01:26:17,378 --> 01:26:18,971
(GASPS)
1257
01:26:26,387 --> 01:26:29,982
I don't know how long
she'd had cancer for.
1258
01:26:38,399 --> 01:26:39,794
GINNY:
One, two, three, four, five.
1259
01:26:39,829 --> 01:26:41,400
Five, four, three, two, one.
1260
01:26:41,435 --> 01:26:43,534
One, two, three, four, five.
Five, four, three, two, one.
1261
01:26:43,569 --> 01:26:47,274
All my love and look forward
to seeing you then.
1262
01:26:47,309 --> 01:26:49,639
RAN: Thank you very much,my love. That's excellent.
1263
01:26:49,674 --> 01:26:51,674
And that's good graft. Over.
1264
01:26:51,709 --> 01:26:54,809
GINNY: Well, I love you
very much. Speak to you later.
1265
01:26:54,844 --> 01:26:56,646
RAN: Nighty night. Bye.
1266
01:27:03,457 --> 01:27:07,789
ANTON: The phone rang here
at home and it was Ran.
1267
01:27:10,090 --> 01:27:15,632
And he said, "I've got
really, really bad news."
1268
01:27:25,611 --> 01:27:29,778
He said she'd died
about 15 minutes ago.
1269
01:27:29,813 --> 01:27:32,451
"She's still in my arms."
1270
01:27:40,054 --> 01:27:41,658
I think I've massacred
this rose.
1271
01:27:41,693 --> 01:27:43,088
I don't know
what to do with it.
1272
01:27:43,123 --> 01:27:45,365
ANTON: He was very business-like
about everything
1273
01:27:45,400 --> 01:27:48,533
because that's how
he dealt with it.
1274
01:28:21,469 --> 01:28:24,635
RAN: My problem is
it is the only topic
1275
01:28:24,670 --> 01:28:26,868
which makes me emotional
1276
01:28:30,643 --> 01:28:35,481
and so I have to, inside,
force myself not to get that way
1277
01:28:37,947 --> 01:28:40,948
because the love was huge
1278
01:28:43,150 --> 01:28:47,086
and therefore
time doesn't heal it, really.
1279
01:28:48,694 --> 01:28:50,991
It sort of sits.
1280
01:28:55,998 --> 01:28:58,405
FIONA: It was a terrible time
for him.
1281
01:29:00,475 --> 01:29:02,068
And poor Ran,
1282
01:29:02,103 --> 01:29:06,710
he had three really close family
who all died.
1283
01:29:09,143 --> 01:29:10,780
His sister was cancer
1284
01:29:10,815 --> 01:29:14,421
and his mother
fairly shortly after Ginny.
1285
01:29:19,120 --> 01:29:22,088
RAN: I can't remember
when and where
1286
01:29:22,123 --> 01:29:24,794
I gave to actually crying.
1287
01:29:28,536 --> 01:29:33,440
I can remember at night, going
up and talking to the animals
1288
01:29:33,475 --> 01:29:35,838
using the names
that she had for them,
1289
01:29:35,873 --> 01:29:38,170
and Julia,
and so on and so forth.
1290
01:29:39,107 --> 01:29:42,108
And just desperately wanting
1291
01:29:42,143 --> 01:29:46,684
to get out of a mood
of zero nothingness.
1292
01:30:04,968 --> 01:30:07,067
FIONA: Ginny said, you know,
"This is such a shame
1293
01:30:07,102 --> 01:30:09,773
because he was going to try
and ease off a bit
1294
01:30:09,808 --> 01:30:12,908
and we were gonna have more time
together and more holidays."
1295
01:30:12,943 --> 01:30:14,910
-I think he would have.
-Push, push, push.
1296
01:30:14,945 --> 01:30:16,549
Well, I don't know, actually.
1297
01:30:16,584 --> 01:30:19,486
Knowing Ran, he probably would
have carried on doing something,
1298
01:30:19,521 --> 01:30:24,084
but I think it certainly
drove him to just go flat out.
1299
01:30:24,119 --> 01:30:25,657
MAN: Well done, Ran.
Well done, Ran.
1300
01:30:25,692 --> 01:30:27,153
Keep it going
as long as you can.
1301
01:30:27,188 --> 01:30:30,860
Come on, push it on. Push, push,
push, push, push. That's good.
1302
01:30:30,895 --> 01:30:33,764
RAN: I worked and worked
and worked and worked
1303
01:30:33,799 --> 01:30:35,601
so as to be away from home.
1304
01:30:40,773 --> 01:30:44,742
Life was completely second-rate.
1305
01:30:46,779 --> 01:30:51,243
Now, terribly sad,
last year, your wife died.
1306
01:30:51,278 --> 01:30:54,180
You'd been together
since you were...?
1307
01:30:54,215 --> 01:30:56,655
Well, she was nine, I was 12.
1308
01:30:56,690 --> 01:31:00,186
We knew each other
for about 48 years.
1309
01:31:00,221 --> 01:31:02,188
Do you think that your drive
to keep going
1310
01:31:02,223 --> 01:31:03,629
even now with the marathons
1311
01:31:03,664 --> 01:31:06,995
and so on and future exhibition,
expeditions
1312
01:31:07,030 --> 01:31:08,326
has anything to do with the fact
1313
01:31:08,361 --> 01:31:10,603
that you just want
to keep yourself busy?
1314
01:31:10,638 --> 01:31:12,000
I don't want to think any more.
1315
01:31:12,035 --> 01:31:13,837
I don't want to have time
to think.
1316
01:31:13,872 --> 01:31:18,303
So, the more I can do,
it's good. Yeah, keep busy.
1317
01:31:24,179 --> 01:31:25,948
He went up Everest.
1318
01:31:27,721 --> 01:31:30,183
(SIGHS) Um...
1319
01:31:30,218 --> 01:31:35,155
But he told me that it was
a sort of not an easy way out,
1320
01:31:35,190 --> 01:31:38,763
but if he dropped off a cliff
or fell asleep in the snow,
1321
01:31:38,798 --> 01:31:42,360
it would be an option,
1322
01:31:42,395 --> 01:31:46,001
because he had no motivation
to go on after Ginny died.
1323
01:31:49,809 --> 01:31:55,142
But he turned back
because he felt his heart going.
1324
01:32:01,216 --> 01:32:04,954
That's the most heroic thing
I know that he's done,
1325
01:32:04,989 --> 01:32:06,285
given who he was.
1326
01:32:14,900 --> 01:32:20,673
His instinct to survive
is stronger than his, um, grief.
1327
01:32:57,272 --> 01:33:04,915
RAN: Just getting ready
to, um, go into the sea
1328
01:33:06,985 --> 01:33:10,657
to get rid
of suspected Parkinson's.
1329
01:33:13,057 --> 01:33:16,663
I've tried what
the doctor suggested,
1330
01:33:16,698 --> 01:33:19,391
and it didn't stop the shaking.
1331
01:33:19,426 --> 01:33:23,098
And basically, I saw on TV,
1332
01:33:23,133 --> 01:33:30,776
that you can make your own
body protein by getting cold.
1333
01:33:30,811 --> 01:33:33,845
The exact opposite
to what I became quite good at,
1334
01:33:33,880 --> 01:33:37,849
which was staying warm.
(CHUCKLES)
1335
01:33:37,884 --> 01:33:41,017
(♪ "THE COLD SONG"
BY KLAUS NOMI)
1336
01:34:12,182 --> 01:34:16,822
I can remember with Anton
and Jill and Ginny,
1337
01:34:16,857 --> 01:34:19,385
Paris holiday.
1338
01:34:19,420 --> 01:34:24,390
We decided we would have a look
in the catacombs.
1339
01:34:25,767 --> 01:34:27,800
And you walked down.
1340
01:34:29,067 --> 01:34:31,529
And on that side and that side,
1341
01:34:31,564 --> 01:34:34,741
each person is bones
and a skull,
1342
01:34:34,776 --> 01:34:38,074
bones and a skull,
bones and a skull. Twelve high.
1343
01:34:41,178 --> 01:34:42,815
Millions.
1344
01:34:44,346 --> 01:34:47,820
What's the name of that one?
What's the name of that one?
1345
01:34:47,855 --> 01:34:49,822
Did that one worry?
1346
01:34:51,122 --> 01:34:55,190
What you worry about
is just utterly pointless.
1347
01:34:55,225 --> 01:34:57,291
It's not going
to affect anything.
1348
01:34:57,326 --> 01:34:59,931
You're gonna end up
like one of them.
1349
01:35:02,265 --> 01:35:04,364
MATT: But you'll have a name
cos you'll be...
1350
01:35:04,399 --> 01:35:06,531
People will remember
what you've done.
1351
01:35:09,272 --> 01:35:12,306
Maybe ten years or something.
Very unlikely.
1352
01:35:14,145 --> 01:35:17,344
But I don't mind about that
because of what I've just said.
1353
01:35:17,379 --> 01:35:20,952
It's just irrelevant.
1354
01:35:20,987 --> 01:35:24,318
We have a time down here
and when it's done, it's done.
1355
01:36:14,568 --> 01:36:17,338
For 16 years since Ginny died,
1356
01:36:19,210 --> 01:36:22,343
I probably
only come into the house
1357
01:36:22,378 --> 01:36:25,852
for, like, a bath,
or watching TV.
1358
01:36:30,023 --> 01:36:33,123
I thought that it was that way
but it obviously isn't.
1359
01:36:33,158 --> 01:36:37,127
So, I started advertising
to sell Greenlands
1360
01:36:37,162 --> 01:36:39,063
about three years ago.
1361
01:36:39,098 --> 01:36:41,626
I tell you,
I'm gonna start hitting it.
1362
01:36:44,565 --> 01:36:48,567
This house, this was Ginny.
1363
01:36:51,539 --> 01:36:56,278
Now Ginny's gone, the house
has lost that anchorage.
1364
01:36:57,446 --> 01:37:00,282
But the place
brings back the memories.
1365
01:37:05,091 --> 01:37:08,224
GINNY: The view out
of the sitting room window.
1366
01:37:08,259 --> 01:37:10,028
It's quite pretty.
1367
01:37:12,461 --> 01:37:19,664
And Ran's clearing away
the clinker from the chimney.
1368
01:37:22,141 --> 01:37:23,437
RAN: God.
1369
01:37:25,210 --> 01:37:28,277
GINNY: And at the back
of the house, some barns.
1370
01:37:28,312 --> 01:37:30,576
It's got cupboards
and fitted shelves.
1371
01:37:30,611 --> 01:37:33,480
RAN: It's lovely hearing
her voice like this.
1372
01:37:33,515 --> 01:37:36,318
-Tea up, pussy cat.
-OK.
1373
01:37:36,353 --> 01:37:38,353
Tea up.
1374
01:37:38,388 --> 01:37:41,455
Is there any tea leaves?
Teabags?
1375
01:37:43,393 --> 01:37:44,425
RAN: This is wonderful.
1376
01:37:44,460 --> 01:37:46,592
-(HOWLS)
-(DOG BARKS)
1377
01:37:52,633 --> 01:37:56,041
-(HOWLS)
-(DOG BARKS)
1378
01:38:04,084 --> 01:38:06,150
Darling, are there any teabags?
1379
01:38:07,780 --> 01:38:11,287
-Teabags?
-GINNY: No. Finished them all.
1380
01:38:11,322 --> 01:38:13,685
(LAUGHS)
1381
01:38:13,720 --> 01:38:16,094
That's so funny.
That's so wonderful.
1382
01:38:17,130 --> 01:38:20,197
Walkies time. Come on.
1383
01:38:20,232 --> 01:38:23,497
Come on. (WHISTLES) Puppy.
1384
01:38:23,532 --> 01:38:25,631
It's just amazing how time...
1385
01:38:27,272 --> 01:38:28,535
Huh.
1386
01:38:31,672 --> 01:38:36,411
Just a memory which you've
totally forgotten ever existed
1387
01:38:38,712 --> 01:38:42,054
and all the happiness
that was involved.
1388
01:38:47,556 --> 01:38:53,065
How many other times have I
forgotten that were lovely?
1389
01:38:58,567 --> 01:39:01,469
But we had our time.
1390
01:39:04,672 --> 01:39:07,981
We made it
the way Ginny wanted it to be.
1391
01:39:12,548 --> 01:39:19,421
And, um, when we withdraw, we'll
leave them with the atmosphere.
1392
01:39:25,099 --> 01:39:29,068
When, you know,
not long before she died,
1393
01:39:29,103 --> 01:39:30,201
she looked at me and said,
1394
01:39:30,236 --> 01:39:32,368
"I've said to Ran
that he must remarry
1395
01:39:32,403 --> 01:39:34,271
and have a child."
1396
01:39:36,572 --> 01:39:37,670
You know, that was it.
1397
01:39:37,705 --> 01:39:40,046
She was desperate for him
to have a child
1398
01:39:40,081 --> 01:39:43,280
cos she knew that's what
he wanted more than anything.
1399
01:39:45,119 --> 01:39:48,054
So, uh, yeah,
she did want him to move on.
1400
01:40:08,274 --> 01:40:10,274
Cor, stiff.
1401
01:40:10,309 --> 01:40:13,772
Trouble with not being able
to straighten up.
1402
01:40:13,807 --> 01:40:17,875
The first time I've spent
the entire night tied in.
1403
01:40:17,910 --> 01:40:22,418
And that's the sort of,
shall we say, lavatory.
1404
01:40:38,469 --> 01:40:42,768
2007, when we climbed the North
Face of the Eiger together,
1405
01:40:42,803 --> 01:40:45,441
he was realising that,
1406
01:40:45,476 --> 01:40:46,739
you know, he wasn't the man
1407
01:40:46,774 --> 01:40:50,380
that he was
in his thirties and forties.
1408
01:40:50,415 --> 01:40:56,353
He was coming to terms
with that sort of fragility.
1409
01:40:58,522 --> 01:41:00,357
You know,
his own internal battle
1410
01:41:00,392 --> 01:41:03,591
that his body wasn't
the impregnable fortress
1411
01:41:03,626 --> 01:41:05,560
that perhaps it once was.
1412
01:41:07,234 --> 01:41:11,269
Often find I literally
can't do moves
1413
01:41:11,304 --> 01:41:13,799
which other people can do
1414
01:41:13,834 --> 01:41:16,802
where there's
a particularly tricky grip
1415
01:41:16,837 --> 01:41:19,178
which has to be
on the left hand.
1416
01:41:19,213 --> 01:41:20,311
IAN: Yeah.
1417
01:41:21,281 --> 01:41:23,281
RAN: That really foxes me.
1418
01:41:32,292 --> 01:41:34,160
Don't want to lose my axe.
1419
01:41:44,271 --> 01:41:45,798
-Careful.
-Why?
1420
01:41:45,833 --> 01:41:47,800
Well, it'll cut the rope.
1421
01:41:47,835 --> 01:41:49,901
-That wouldn't be good.
-No.
1422
01:41:53,808 --> 01:41:57,942
So Ran's basically hanging
completely above the void.
1423
01:41:57,977 --> 01:42:00,945
Not liking it one bit,
I tell you.
1424
01:42:00,980 --> 01:42:03,915
-What did you reckon to that?
-Hair-raising, I'm afraid.
1425
01:42:03,950 --> 01:42:07,754
Not my cup of tea at all.
Very frightening.
1426
01:42:11,496 --> 01:42:13,925
KENTON: It was
a pretty interesting, rich time
1427
01:42:13,960 --> 01:42:16,334
to be around Ran.
1428
01:42:18,503 --> 01:42:20,239
You know,
he's still going through
1429
01:42:20,274 --> 01:42:22,439
all the emotional rigmarole
of Ginny's loss
1430
01:42:22,474 --> 01:42:27,741
and I think it was his sister
was about to pass away and...
1431
01:42:27,776 --> 01:42:34,682
So he was dealing with a lot
of that emotional imbalance.
1432
01:42:36,554 --> 01:42:38,884
And, you know,
it was also the time
1433
01:42:38,919 --> 01:42:41,953
that he first got together
with Louise.
1434
01:42:48,500 --> 01:42:51,468
He rang to say
that he'd met somebody.
1435
01:42:51,503 --> 01:42:54,273
And he was going to marry them.
1436
01:42:55,738 --> 01:43:00,708
And I said, "You've gotta do
what you're happy doing,
1437
01:43:00,743 --> 01:43:02,380
because you just want someone
1438
01:43:02,415 --> 01:43:04,712
to be happy that you love,
don't you?"
1439
01:43:10,423 --> 01:43:15,921
Ran's plans to climb the Eiger
have absolutely terrified me.
1440
01:43:15,956 --> 01:43:18,924
It's not my idea of something
particularly pleasant.
1441
01:43:18,959 --> 01:43:23,335
And after how ill
Everest made him,
1442
01:43:23,370 --> 01:43:24,732
you would have thought
1443
01:43:24,767 --> 01:43:28,032
that he would be less inclined
to do such things.
1444
01:43:28,067 --> 01:43:30,408
REPORTER: And for thefirst time on this expedition,
1445
01:43:30,443 --> 01:43:32,674
he has a bigger reasonthan ever before
1446
01:43:32,709 --> 01:43:33,873
to get back down alive.
1447
01:43:33,908 --> 01:43:36,942
His four-month-old daughter,Elizabeth.
1448
01:43:46,855 --> 01:43:51,297
Those of us who
were close friends of his
1449
01:43:51,332 --> 01:43:56,665
were told that because
he was marrying again
1450
01:43:56,700 --> 01:43:59,800
that, you know,
his life was going to change.
1451
01:43:59,835 --> 01:44:02,968
Those particular chapters
have closed
1452
01:44:03,003 --> 01:44:05,971
involving
old army friends like me,
1453
01:44:06,006 --> 01:44:09,678
and that he was setting off
on a new a new life.
1454
01:44:13,079 --> 01:44:15,783
JEAN: Everything
was separate in Ran's life.
1455
01:44:15,818 --> 01:44:18,753
-I think he's, you know...
-PETER: Compartmentalised.
1456
01:44:18,788 --> 01:44:21,921
JEAN:
Yeah, every part of his life.
1457
01:44:25,960 --> 01:44:28,961
We're in a compartment,
aren't we?
1458
01:44:28,996 --> 01:44:30,402
PETER: Hmm.
1459
01:44:30,437 --> 01:44:33,372
JEAN: And Louise is definitely
in a compartment.
1460
01:44:37,477 --> 01:44:40,841
RAN: My whole world,
every person she spoke to,
1461
01:44:40,876 --> 01:44:43,349
would bring up Ginny
and this and that,
1462
01:44:43,384 --> 01:44:45,076
and Ginny and that,
and so on.
1463
01:44:45,111 --> 01:44:48,013
I wouldn't have liked it
if I'd been Louise.
1464
01:44:53,790 --> 01:45:01,565
I'm fearful that I lose
the close warmth of my wife
1465
01:45:01,600 --> 01:45:03,798
because of her thinking,
"Oh, dear,
1466
01:45:03,833 --> 01:45:06,669
he's still living
back in those times."
1467
01:45:40,540 --> 01:45:43,134
Ran doesn't run away.
He doesn't run away.
1468
01:45:44,170 --> 01:45:46,808
The competitive instinct
kicks in.
1469
01:45:46,843 --> 01:45:49,107
He's, "I'm gonna climb
that bloody hill."
1470
01:45:51,881 --> 01:45:54,717
It's third time lucky for
the explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes
1471
01:45:54,752 --> 01:45:57,654
who's become the oldest Briton
to scale Everest.
1472
01:45:57,689 --> 01:45:59,755
This morning, the 65-year-old
1473
01:45:59,790 --> 01:46:02,659
finally made it
to the top of the world.
1474
01:46:04,157 --> 01:46:07,631
RAN:
1475
01:46:08,799 --> 01:46:12,801
(LAUGHTER)
1476
01:46:12,836 --> 01:46:15,507
Is that it, or do you have
any more mountains
1477
01:46:15,542 --> 01:46:16,904
that you want to conquer?
1478
01:46:16,939 --> 01:46:20,105
I'm not going near
any more mountains,
1479
01:46:20,140 --> 01:46:22,206
not even for Marie Curie.
1480
01:46:22,241 --> 01:46:23,812
I hate them.
1481
01:46:23,847 --> 01:46:25,517
Fifteen hundred feet on Exmoor
1482
01:46:25,552 --> 01:46:27,717
is quite high enough.
So, that's it.
1483
01:46:33,659 --> 01:46:35,054
(COW MOOS)
1484
01:46:49,708 --> 01:46:51,774
That was when they had
1485
01:46:51,809 --> 01:46:55,976
the Guinness World
Hall of Fame in London.
1486
01:46:56,011 --> 01:46:59,947
The world's greatest musician,
Paul McCartney.
1487
01:46:59,982 --> 01:47:03,555
The world's greatest
sportsperson,
1488
01:47:03,590 --> 01:47:05,953
Billie Jean King. Myself.
1489
01:47:05,988 --> 01:47:09,792
And lastly, that gentleman
who was a cuckoo clock salesman
1490
01:47:09,827 --> 01:47:11,992
who had an amazing ability
1491
01:47:12,027 --> 01:47:16,601
to walk over a hundred yards on
red-hot coals with no shoes on.
1492
01:47:16,636 --> 01:47:19,604
Scientists tried to work it out
but they couldn't.
1493
01:47:21,102 --> 01:47:24,642
That's Bothie coming in
from the sunlight.
1494
01:47:25,711 --> 01:47:27,172
That's Ginny.
1495
01:47:27,207 --> 01:47:31,550
That is Charlie Burton,
a wonderful guy,
1496
01:47:31,585 --> 01:47:35,246
at the base camp in Antarctica,
just before setting out.
1497
01:47:42,794 --> 01:47:44,090
Sorry, I thought you wanted
1498
01:47:44,125 --> 01:47:46,257
to photograph
what I was pointing at.
1499
01:47:50,362 --> 01:47:53,638
That's, um, last year.
1500
01:47:53,673 --> 01:47:58,005
That's Elizabeth. She would
have been 13 coming on 14.
1501
01:47:58,040 --> 01:48:00,711
And Louise.
1502
01:48:00,746 --> 01:48:03,714
And me looking,
or trying to look smart.
1503
01:48:05,212 --> 01:48:08,015
We're a happy family,
as they call it.
1504
01:48:10,217 --> 01:48:12,954
MATT: How do you find parenting?
1505
01:48:14,089 --> 01:48:18,289
RAN: I find it's, um, wonderful
1506
01:48:18,324 --> 01:48:23,261
and it means
that you've had a complete life.
1507
01:48:24,396 --> 01:48:27,738
And seeing someone
who is your blood,
1508
01:48:27,773 --> 01:48:31,104
and the blood
of the someone you love,
1509
01:48:32,679 --> 01:48:36,043
is just a great process
all the time.
1510
01:48:38,047 --> 01:48:40,619
When we were having
little mock fights,
1511
01:48:40,654 --> 01:48:44,282
Elizabeth used to always go
for your nose.
1512
01:48:44,317 --> 01:48:47,857
She was happiest when she
managed to get Daddy's nose,
1513
01:48:49,190 --> 01:48:52,290
about the size of which
she was usually rude.
1514
01:48:54,426 --> 01:48:57,834
Her nickname
is Mouse or Totty Mouse.
1515
01:48:59,266 --> 01:49:02,707
Louise's nickname is Lollick.
1516
01:49:02,742 --> 01:49:06,337
I asked her the other day,
"Why do I call you Lollick?"
1517
01:49:06,372 --> 01:49:08,944
She thought for a bit
and said she couldn't remember.
1518
01:49:08,979 --> 01:49:10,979
And I can't remember either.
1519
01:49:30,330 --> 01:49:35,399
I've made a plan
based on statistics.
1520
01:49:40,076 --> 01:49:43,077
I'll do what I've always
been doing every year
1521
01:49:44,410 --> 01:49:47,246
which is to climb Crib Goch
1522
01:49:48,854 --> 01:49:50,920
until I'm 85.
1523
01:49:58,996 --> 01:50:02,228
86th year I'll have to find
something else.
1524
01:50:07,367 --> 01:50:09,169
I might try Ben Nevis.
1525
01:50:10,876 --> 01:50:13,745
I'm not sure if I'll be allowed
to drive then.
1526
01:50:21,480 --> 01:50:23,854
(PHONE LINE RINGS)
1527
01:50:29,455 --> 01:50:30,421
Hello, sweetheart.
1528
01:50:30,456 --> 01:50:33,765
I'm leaving early.
I'm leaving now.
1529
01:50:35,769 --> 01:50:38,099
Right, darling.
1530
01:50:38,134 --> 01:50:43,170
Very, very much love to you
and give Mouse a kiss.
1531
01:50:43,205 --> 01:50:45,942
LOUISE: She's amazing.
1532
01:50:45,977 --> 01:50:48,846
RAN: Lovely Mouse.
Lots and lots of love.
1533
01:50:50,014 --> 01:50:53,180
-Love you very much.
-I love you.
1534
01:50:53,215 --> 01:50:55,985
Love you, sweetheart. Darling.
1535
01:51:03,489 --> 01:51:07,931
(♪ "TICKLE ME PINK"
BY JOHNNY FLYNN SHOWBAND)
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