I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
BEAR GRYLLSThe extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
BEAR GRYLLSTextbook 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!”
BEAR GRYLLSWell, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
BEAR GRYLLSTextbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
BEAR GRYLLSScouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
BEAR GRYLLSThe difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me…
BEAR GRYLLSI’ve eaten sheep’s eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
BEAR GRYLLSI hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
BEAR GRYLLSIt breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
BEAR GRYLLSTime and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.
BEAR GRYLLSLook, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
BEAR GRYLLSI was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
BEAR GRYLLSA 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.
BEAR GRYLLSAbove all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
BEAR GRYLLSI 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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