Sir Ranulph Fiennes is credited as being the World’s Greatest Living Explorer. Among his extraordinary achievements, he was the first to circumnavigate the world from pole to pole, crossed the Antarctic on foot, broke countless world records, and discovered a lost city in Arabia. He has travelled to the most dangerous places on Earth, lost half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and was nearly cast as James Bond. But who is the man who prefers to be known as just ‘Ran’?
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- Released
- Production
- Good Productions, Universal Pictures Content Group, BFI
Keywords
- interview
- biography
- antarctica
- archive footage
- explorer
- mount everest
- archaeological expedition
- old footage
- expert opinion
- polar expedition
- sportsman
- nile river
- mountain expedition
- desert expedition
- figure study
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Top Cast
Ranulph Fiennes as Self
Anton Bowring as Self
King Charles III of the United Kingdom as Self (archive footage)
Top Crew
Matthew Dyas · Director
Chris Openshaw · Cinematographer
Ben Stark · Editor
Charlie Hawryliw · Editor
Paul Gardner · Producer
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