This is the strangest interview I have ever read. It is kind of like a conversation on Twitter. I guess it is for the new book. Here is a taste:

Explorer and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, 63, was discharged from the SAS for blowing up a film company’s fake dam in Wiltshire. Countless adventures followed, including seven marathons in seven days on seven continents just four months after a heart attack. He is planning a second attempt on Everest in April. His latest book is Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Hodder & Stoughton, £20)

What did you have for breakfast?
Coffee, two bits of brown toast with Flora, not butter, due to the cardiac situation, and a handful of cardiac pills.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?
A goat’s eye. I was a British Officer in the 1960s with a whole load of Arabs squatting around their fire. I just didn’t breathe and it went down in one, along with several flies.

In 2000, you sawed off your own frostbitten, necrotic fingers in your garden shed. What precautions did you take?
I was as careful as possible to only saw through dead tissue and bone. Exactly like trimming your fingernails.

Is the smoking ban a good thing?
Excellent. I don’t like people being told what they should do but there’s an exception to every rule.

Totally random. Read more about Ran.

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