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Mar 19, 2017 · Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes contracted severe frostbite on a solo attempt to walk to the North Pole. Back home, he couldn't cope with the pain, so he decided to saw off his own fingers.
In his autobiography Sir Ranulph described how, following a 2000 expedition, he had amputated the tips of all four fingers and the thumb of his left hand. Sir Ranulph Fiennes signs copies...
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Nov 15, 2013 · Sir Ranulph Fiennes tells BBC Newsnight's Kirsty Wark how he cut some of his own fingers off with a blade because of the pain they caused him.
Dec 16, 2017 · Bookmark. Sir Ranulph Fiennes sawed off his frostbitten fingers after his wife told him he had become "irritable". The famous British explorer revealed he hacked off his digits through flesh...
Feb 18, 2019 · Sir Ranulph Feinnes, 74, has demonstrated the technique he used to saw off his own fingertips in his garden shed after they became dangerously frostbitten on an expedition to the North Pole.
Dec 16, 2017 · On his return to the UK, surgeons told him he would have to wait five months for the necessary amputations, to allow the partially-damaged tissue halfway down his fingers to heal sufficiently to...
Nov 14, 2016 · At the age of 72, Sir Ranulph is now attempting to become the first person to cross both polar ice caps and climb the highest mountain on each continent, in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care.