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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.

Bear Grylls

When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, “What we’re going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous.” And you just see 20 smiles go up.
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Empowering Kids Risk
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
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
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
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Love Needs Scratches Truth
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
Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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Dream Fighting Thinking
Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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Give Up Heart Survival
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Army Soldier Years
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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Climbing Confidence Self Special
Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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Mirrors Price Pride Tag
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
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Alive Guy Survivor
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Enough Nobody Straight Stupid
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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Climb Dad Thinking
How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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Speak
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.
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Digging Magic Men
Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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Embers Needs Sometimes

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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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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