Beyond the Limits
Subtitle: The Lessons Learned from a Lifetime's Adventures
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780316854580
Subjects: Places & peoples: general interest; True stories of endurance & survival; Travel - General; Travel; Arctic regions; Australasia; General; Special Interest - Adventure; 1944-; Biography; Explorers; Fiennes, Ranulph,; Great Britain; Sir,
First sentence: My father died of wounds in Italy in 1943, four months before I was born in Windsor, as Hitler's V25 rained down on Britain.
Description: On 5 February 2000 Sir Ranulph Fiennes set off on the most direct, and most difficult, route to the North Pole from Canada in an attempt to be the first man to reach the Pole this way. It involved towing a heavily laden sledge over 425 nautical miles of broken ice and open sea fractures.