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 GRYLLSThat feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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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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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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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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I train five days a week hard – but it is short and sharp – 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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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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A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
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I’m terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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