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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.

Bear Grylls

I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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Art Healthy Love Making
Juice Plus+ is great stuff that I have used through all of my expeditions. What I like about it is that the research behind it is so strong.
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Key Recovery Research Strong
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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Ends Feelings Planet
Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Absence Brave Way
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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Answers Empowering Simple
My Christian faith is my backbone
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Backbone Christian Faith
Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it’s really going to hold them back if they don’t.
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Boys Gay Thinking
How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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Speak
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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Couple Running Swimming
I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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Careers Climber Soldier
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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Key Moving Training
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Dangerous Desert Mountain
When I’m filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you’ve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I’m not like that when I’m back home.
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Energy Home Survival
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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Rocks Shows Squirrels TV
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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Determine Lines Self
Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe’s way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
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Dawn Giving Lines Up
Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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Clear Famous Lines Sude Trying Want
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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Age Special Wanted Young
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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Challenges Made Want
I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
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Clothes Fire Thinking
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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Grow Survival
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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Priority Survival Weather
Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
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Ego Enough Strong
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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Baptist Growing Robins Up
I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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Men Survivor Three
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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Done Jobs Procrastination
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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Christian Heart Jesus

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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