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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.

Bear Grylls

I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.
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Cooking Fast Food Home
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
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Enough Nobody Straight Stupid
I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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Face Rock Tea
As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Healthy Meat Trying
It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Conflict Jobs Lovely
I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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Intuition Night Quiet Voice
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
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
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
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Luck Matter Trying
I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
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Eyebrows Hands Prayer
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
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
Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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Little Time Littles Quiet
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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Overcoming Quality Self

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.

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