 Sir Ranulph, 61, is raising money for the British Heart Foundation |
Veteran explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes says he is still on target to raise �2m for charity despite having to abandon a recent attempt to scale Mount Everest. The 61-year-old wants to help set up a new cardiac unit for children, through the British Heart Foundation, and has now raised half the cash.
Sir Ranulph has raised more than half the money by running seven marathons.
He told the BBC that people who suffer a heart attack do not have to stop being active.
Sir Ranulph - who owns a farm on Exmoor in west Somerset - had a heart attack in 2003 followed by bypass surgery, but months later broke records by completing seven marathons on seven continents in seven days.
A few months later, in February 2004, he was widowed when his wife of 34 years, Virginia, known as Ginny, died after a short illness.
The explorer is famous for a three-year transglobe expedition - the first successful circumnavigation of the world on its polar axis - which was completed in 1982.
He is also well-known for his attempts, along with Dr Mike Stroud, to reach the North Pole unaided and a 97-day trek across Antarctica.
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