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.
BEAR GRYLLSYou can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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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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What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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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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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Juice Plus+ is great stuff that I have used through all of my expeditions. What I like about it is that the research behind it is so strong.
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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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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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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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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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Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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My best life lessons and education didn’t come from a classroom – they’ve come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.
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One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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