Gordon’s alive..... happy birthday Brian Blessed

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Brian Blessed OBE turned 85 this weekend. What a top bloke - accomplished actor, mountaineer, adventurer, midwife, trained astronaut, louder than a jet engine and respected member of the British Interplanetary Society...
happy birthday......Eloquent and educated.....and taking swearing to Shakespearean levels ....

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He’s some character.

Attempted Everest on three occasions, almost summited on the first climb, and just shy of the South Col on the second. All without supplemental oxygen.

A man of his build shouldn’t even make it to Base Camp, let alone negotiate the Khumbu Icefall.
 
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I remember watching him in an episode of The Sweeney. A hard man indeed!!!
 
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The bloke is a legend! Have been watching some reruns of Tales if the Unexpected and he featured in one of the episodes.
 
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He’s some character.
Attempted Everest on three occasions, almost summited on the first climb, and just shy of the South Col on the second. All without supplemental oxygen.
A man of his build shouldn’t even make it to Base Camp, let alone negotiate the Khumbu Icefall.

All stories improve with the telling and he is a great raconteur....this is him describing hand to hand combat with a polar bear on route to the Magnetic North Pole.... while stopping to have a sing along on a Russian Nuclear sub ;0)