The decision to leave Antarctica was, Sir Ranulph insisted, a quick and easy one.
BBC: Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Diabetes link to Antarctica injury
Sir Ranulph now plans to return to the UK to play a very different role.
BBC: Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Diabetes link to Antarctica injury
Sir Ranulph changed his plea to the driving charge in a letter from his solicitor.
We start in the English countryside, on a sheep farm, owned and operated by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
Sir Ranulph previously denied the charge and had been asked to appear at Inverness Justice of Peace Court.
Sir Ranulph's car continued forward and hit the front of another car on the opposite side of the road.
Sir David and Prof Hawking finished above explorer Ranulph Fiennes, Prince Charles and world wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has pleaded guilty by letter to speeding on the A9 in the Highlands last year.
Blizzard conditions are currently making any evacuation impossible and Sir Ranulph will be unable to move until conditions ease.
In 2003, Dr Stroud completed seven marathons in seven days across seven continents alongside the explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
The Prince of Wales has said that, without the adventures of Sir Ranulph, the world would be a duller place.
The expedition force is led by the man known as the world's greatest living explorer - 68-year-old Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
Fiscal depute Alison Wylie told Justice of the Peace Pam Marrs that the lawyers had sought to protect Sir Ranulph's driving licence.
Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham Fiennes, an aristocrat whose lineage can be traced back to Charlemagne, originally hoped to emulate the career of his father.
Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been charged with a driving offence after a car crash in Stockport, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.
Sir Ranulph was the first man to visit both the North and South Poles by foot and the first to completely cross Antarctica by foot.
The team is attempting to evacuate Sir Ranulph by transporting him by skidoo to the Princess Elisabeth Station, about 70km away from his current position.
He also described Sir Ranulph as a "very, very experienced driver".
But the famously sanguine Sir Ranulph assesses his personal risk as no greater than those of "a salesman, for instance, driving up and down the motorway".
Sir Ranulph had been due to lead the team from the front on skis, and had been practising his skiing in whiteout conditions when he fell.
He said Sir Ranulph would have been tired after the endurance run but "he is, by any measure, no ordinary man in terms of his achievements and stamina".
As her former lover, the ever-impelled Lord Asriel, Timothy Dalton draws as much inspiration from Sir Ranulph Fiennes as he does from his earlier incarnation as James Bond.
It's an expedition that's been in the planning stages for years, Sir Ranulph says on the bridge of the ship, while looking at a map of his route.
Sir Ranulph will find out more about the damage to his fingers when he returns to the UK. He's hoping not to lose "more than an inch" to the frostbite.
BBC: Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Diabetes link to Antarctica injury
Sir Ranulph believes that "the bypass has slowed me down enormously" but, in fact, doctors have estimated that the surgery may actually have helped his heart's performance by clearing his arteries.
Sir Ranulph was the first man to reach both North and South Poles by land and was also the oldest Briton to climb Everest, in 2009, at the age of 65.
He is hoping to prepare for the cold and test his equipment at a cold chamber testing facility at Millbrook in Bedfordshire - recently used by Exmoor polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
In person Sir Ranulph comes across as a strikingly modest, canny and straightforward man - reluctant to dwell on his own frustrations - 50% of all his past expeditions had failed, he pointed out.
BBC: Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Diabetes link to Antarctica injury
Sir Ranulph's car was in collision with a Nissan Micra travelling in the opposite direction, then a Ford Focus, before it mounted a pavement and came to a halt near the front window of an Italian restaurant.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is leading a team of five other explorers in a quest to achieve a feat no other human has managed - to walk across Antarctica in the near permanent darkness and super low temperatures of winter.
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