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I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

Bear Grylls

I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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Adventure Kids Want
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
Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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Done Jobs Procrastination
I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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Animal Health Snakes
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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Education Lesson Life Motivational
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
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra.
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Differences Littles Ordinary
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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Key Recovery Research Strong
Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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Luck Moments Plans
I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
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Clothes Fire Thinking
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
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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Achievement Belief Ourselves
Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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Embers Needs Sometimes
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Earthquakes Looks Survivor
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

I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

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I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

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