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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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That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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Flames Giving Ice
I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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Brilliant Rays Rude
I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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Animal Health Snakes
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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Broken Cameras Snakes
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Boys Life Modern Young
A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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Men Pride Support
I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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Intuition Night Quiet Voice
Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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Inspire People Reckless
Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
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Ego Enough Strong
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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Chance One
It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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Children Father Heart
Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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Ambition Heart Pride
There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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Coming Danger Feelings Home
As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Healthy Meat Trying
Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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Being Faith Personal Real
Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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Little Time Littles Quiet
“But, we’re also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk.” That’s what it’s about, you don’t empower kids if you don’t expose them to risk.
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Empower Expose Kids Understand Work
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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Priority Survival Weather
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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Determine Lines Self
Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you’re going to die. They’re all super important.
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Fire Important Water
I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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Face Rock Tea
To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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Couple Running Swimming
Without risk, there can be no growth.
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Growth Happen Risk
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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Courage Dark Journey
I’ve eaten sheep’s eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
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Eye Sheep Zebras
I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
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Eyebrows Hands Prayer
And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
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Giving Heart Law

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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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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