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 GRYLLSI hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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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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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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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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I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.
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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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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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My favorite moments? Where it’s all going swimmingly, the sun’s out and I’ve got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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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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Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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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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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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