Beyond the Limits: The Lessons Learned from a Lifetime's Adventures
Author(s):
Fiennes, Ranulph
Copyright: 2000, UK
Specifications: rep, 4to, pp.223, photo frontis, 137 color & 15 bw photos, color map, appendix, blue cloth
Condition: signed, dj & cloth new
Fiennes, according to The Guinness Book of Records, is the world’s greatest living explorer. In a career spanning over thirty years he has circumnavigated the globe, broken numerous exploration records and experienced more than his share of triumphs and disasters. Fiennes looks back over his extraordinary life and assess the lessons learned from such experiences as: British SAS (1960s), White Nile Expedition (1969), Jostedalsbre Glacier Norway (1970), British Columbia (1971), Greenland (1976, 1978), Transglobe Expedition (1979-82), North Pole unsupported attempt (1986, 1990-91), Lost City of Ubar (1991-92), Pentland South Pole Expedition (1992-93), South Pole unsupported solo attempt (1996), and North Pole unsupported solo attempt (2000).