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Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.

Bear Grylls

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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Bears Names Week
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.
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Adventure Earth Needs
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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Chance One
My favorite moments? Where it’s all going swimmingly, the sun’s out and I’ve got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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Fire Nice Snakes
There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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Climbing Heart Running
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 hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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Adventure Kids Want
All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It’s the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.
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Determination Journey Motivational
I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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Healthy Home Snakes
Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.
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Christianity Home Joy
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
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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Emotion Fearless Stay Strong
Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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Mirrors Price Pride Tag
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
Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
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Jesus Needs People
Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
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Eye High Injured Looks

Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.

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Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.

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