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.
BEAR GRYLLSLook, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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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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Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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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.
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It is 100% natural, is whole food based, and I love the fact that it provides raw, anti-oxidant fruit and veg in a capsule form. For me it fulfills a key part of my nutrition, training and recovery needs.
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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Well, 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.
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There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.
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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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Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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