Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
BEAR GRYLLSLive a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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My Christian faith is my backbone
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Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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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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When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.
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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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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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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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When I’m filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you’ve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I’m not like that when I’m back home.
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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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Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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