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Sir Ranulph 'drew up secret will after wife vetoed plan for divorce'
A longtime friend says the explorer drafted the document after planning a divorce, then abandoned the breakup after a private conversation with his wife.
Michael Kobold, a friend of the explorer for 30 years, told The Mail on Sunday that Sir Ranulph wrote the document by hand in his tent the night before an unsuccessful bid to reach Everest's 29,000ft summit.
Alarm for the fate of Sir Fiennes, 82-year-old writer, former military and above all world-famous explorer. Friends and social workers pointing fingers at their second wife, Louise Millington-Cotes