Sir Ranulph Fiennes to attempt record winter Antarctica trekThe appalling challenge of a six-month 2,000-mile walk across the south pole, in the perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter when temperatures can plummet to -90C, proved, perhaps inevitably, irresistible to the veteran explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.Fiennes' hero, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, wrote "great God, this is an... Continue Reading →