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Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you’re going to die. They’re all super important.

Bear Grylls

I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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Attitude Job Running
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
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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Emotion Fearless Stay Strong
Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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Anchors Harbors May
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
The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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Journey Single Steps
Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”
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Rocks Shows Squirrels TV
I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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Dog Fun Running
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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Challenges Made Want
How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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Speak
There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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Climbing Heart Running
My Christian faith is my backbone
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Backbone Christian Faith
As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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Grows Risk Society Terrified
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
One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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Exercise Tree Vines
I think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
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Drinking Suffering Thinking

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