British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes gestures during a news conference
in front of the 4,500-year-old Pharaonic monument the Sphinx before the
start of a marathon in Cairo November 1, 2003. Fiennes slowly began the
penultimate leg of his latest challenge on

Saturday - running seven marathons in seven days on seven continents
months after suffering a near-fatal heart attack. REUTERS/Aladin Abdel
Naby