I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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!”
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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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The lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn’t really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn’t a TV person.
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What I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
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Time 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.
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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
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Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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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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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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