Ranulph Fiennes is sawing off the end of his own fingers with a fretsaw.
It was all going so well. Well about as well as pulling a half-ton sledge across Antarctica at -40ยบ can go. Nothing too much to worry about, just the usual chronic crotch rot, ultraviolet facial burns, gangrenous toes, frozen eyeballs and, of course, gradual and inevitable bodily deterioration, dehydration and starvation. All in a day’s work for Britain’s greatest living explorer.
