The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
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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I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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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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Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.
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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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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 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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You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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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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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn’t religious.
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Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn’t going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It’s all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
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