What has been your biggest disappointment?

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Recorded Ranulph Fiennes said elsewhere, not written here
An angina attack 300 metres below the summit ridge of Everest in 2005, having spent 72 days getting that far.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2008 source ↗

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Tim Robbins American actor
Not pitching a perfect game in baseball to win the World Series.
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Andi Oliver British cook, television and radio broadcaster, singer
The fact that I didn’t get more success in the music industry.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 December 2021 source ↗
James Bay English singer-songwriter and guitarist
My left foot. (I’m great with my right – I can bend it like Beckham.)
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 January 2016 source ↗

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Question When were you happiest? Time & hindsight
In 1982, having travelled for three years to do the first journey around the earth on its polar axis. Charles Burton and I were trying to get from the north pole down to our ship on the edge of the Arctic Sea. We had to float for three months on a diminishing ice floe. Eventually we had to leave the floe and try to get to the ship in canoes with skis under them. In the maze of broken ice we saw its masts on the horizon. That second was probably my happiest moment.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2008 source ↗

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