Off topic

This is totally unrelated to project management but listen to this short clip and you will be introduced to someone who might well be the toughest, hardest man on this earth and also damn interesting.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is an amazing person; you might want to read two of his books "Living Dangerously" and "Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know: The Autobiography".  Actually both are autobiographies but heck, with all he's done...

What do you think?  As always comments are welcome.

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Comments

[Glen B Alleman]

Great story. I watch Top Gear infrequently, but this is one of the best, other than driving the DB7 racing the TGV.

Living here in Boulder, we have some these types of guys, but nothing like Ranulph.

Another good movie is Shackleton's story in documentary form

[Patrick Richard]

Shackleton, Scott, Amundsen, those guys were brave, crazy, and bold. I find reading their adventures inspiring

I landed on Ranulph Fiennes first biography while on a project in Nottingham. I spent over a year there and got to meet face to face a few alpinists; Chris Bonington, Joe Simpson (Touching the Void), and Doug Scott. Doug Scott is another tough guy who shattered both knees and ended up dragging himself down the Ogre (Baintha Brakk in Pakistan). All of those guys are very mellow and unassuming.

[Oman]

I listened to him talk on a recent visit he made into Oman , very good. If you read the book 'The Feather Men' he then mentions a method he proved that at least one fact could be true in 'The Altantis of the Sands'.

[Patrick Richard]

Hello,

Thanks for posting a comment. Both books are on my forever long list of books to read. Up to know I've concentrated on his biographies.

[Karilee]

Thanks, he was very entertaining in such an understated way. I'll definitely try one of the biographies.

[Patrick Richard]

Thanks for the comment.

He sure is an interesting fellow; he comes out as very subdued but when you read his feats he comes out as reckless.

I guess that is the difference between an adventurer and a desk jockey; their day-to-day seems like a succession od death wishes to us.