Polar Explorer Needs Emergency Medical Treatment

Author:
enews Channel
Publisher:
enews Channel
Publication Date:
27 February 2013
Tags:
Southern Africa, Travel and Tourism, Health and Medicine

British polar explorer Ranulph Fiennes is back in Cape Town for emergency medical treatment. He has been evacuated from Antarctica, where he was part of team attempting what's been called "The World¹s Coldest Journey². The adventurer has severe frost bite on a hand that was already been frostbitten in a previous expedition.

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