“My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.”

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.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities

Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra.

I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.

I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!

As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.

And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.

Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly

You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.