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

- Ranulph Fiennes

No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial …

- Ranulph Fiennes

There is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

- Ranulph Fiennes

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

- Ranulph Fiennes

People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.

- Ranulph Fiennes

It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or h…

- Ranulph Fiennes

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't w…

- Ranulph Fiennes

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

- Ranulph Fiennes

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

- Ranulph Fiennes