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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.

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Exercise helps my back. If I don’t exercise, that’s when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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Hurt Pain Running
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 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
I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.
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Bravery Gone People
I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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Healthy Home Snakes
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
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
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
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!
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Key Moving Training
Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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Clear Famous Lines Sude Trying Want
I didn’t want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
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Eight Fire Fun
Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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Dream Real Tasks
My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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Death Intimate Life Moments
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
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Classic Men Wise
It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Conflict Jobs Lovely
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

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.

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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.

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