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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Bear Grylls

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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Children Father Heart
What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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Adventure Children Opportunity
I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.
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Cooking Fast Food Home
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Enough Nobody Straight Stupid
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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Achievement Belief Ourselves
Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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Believe Care Giving
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.
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Ambition Heart Pride
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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Death Intimate Life Moments
Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
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Risk Survival Waiting
As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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Grows Risk Society Terrified
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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Climb Dad Thinking
In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Air Running Special
The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
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Children Job Religious
Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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Luck Moments Plans
Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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Anchors Harbors May
When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
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Digging Magic Men

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

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