The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
BEAR GRYLLSMy Christian faith is my backbone
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
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One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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My Christian faith is my backbone
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Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”
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I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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I’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.
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Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
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