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Everybody ready? Repeat after me: Professional athletes are more important than ordinary people.   Professional athletes are more important than ordinary people.   Ready? Actors and actresses are more important than common folk.   Actors and actresses are more important than common folk.   Ladies and gentlemen, we can kick and scream all we want. We can blog to and fro all the live long day about how it’s not fair. But the answer has always been and always will be athletes that are more important than me.   The sooner we realize that, the less stressful our lives will be. Look yourself in the mirror, have your epiphany. I ...

In a life jam packed by remarkable physical endeavour, Ranulph Fiennes last night took a step beyond even his own many records of achievement.  At 65, Fiennes became the oldest Briton to conquer Mount Everest. With poetic understatement, he described the journey as “the closest you can get to the moon by walking." But only last year he swore, after his second failed attempt, that he would never try to climb Everest again. After all, his first attempt in 2005 had also ended short of the summit with a heart attack. What changed his mind? The spur to this ultimate mountaineering challenge was his ...