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Ranulph Fiennes 'wrote secret will on Everest hike before wife talked him out of divorce'

Sir Ranulph Fiennes wrote a sealed will in his Everest base camp tent, according to his friend of 30 years, German entrepreneur Michael Kobold. Kobold claims the explorer, then 65, had decided to divorce his second wife two months before flying to Nepal, and had asked him to find a law firm and a PR company so he wouldn't become "the next Sir Paul McCartney." Fiennes failed to summit that year, reached the peak the next, and has not been seen in public for over two years.

Source: Ranulph Fiennes 'wrote secret will on Everest hike before wife talked him out of divorce' — Metro UK

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