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My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.

Bear Grylls

When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
BEAR GRYLLS

Digging Magic Men
Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
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Games Little People
Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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Believe Care Giving
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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Name Opportunity Past
Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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Little Time Littles Quiet
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
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Death Determined Life Lines
I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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Bears Names Week
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
BEAR GRYLLS

Classic Men Wise
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Overcoming Quality Self
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Broken Cameras Snakes
For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
BEAR GRYLLS

Key Moving Training
I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
BEAR GRYLLS

Healthy Home Snakes
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
BEAR GRYLLS

Expecting Happen Stuff Unpredictable
Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.
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Men People Risk
I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
BEAR GRYLLS

Art Healthy Love Making

My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.

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