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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

Bear Grylls

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
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
Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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Embers Needs Sometimes
When I’m filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you’ve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I’m not like that when I’m back home.
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Energy Home Survival
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
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
If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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Gains Nothing Risk
It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Conflict Jobs Lovely
Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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Little Time Littles Quiet
The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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Arena Desert Survival
Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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Adventure Best Boldly Life Live
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
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
I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn’t really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn’t a TV person.
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Mountain Three Tvs
Don’t be scared to dream big, and don’t be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It’s the tenacious not the talented that win.
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Dream Give Up Winning
People ask me, “How do I succeed?” Whatever it is they do, I say, “Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you’ll be getting there.” Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
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Adventure Cutting People

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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