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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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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
That 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.
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Flames Giving Ice
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
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
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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Expecting Happen Stuff Unpredictable
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
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
When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, “What we’re going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous.” And you just see 20 smiles go up.
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Empowering Kids Risk
I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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Art Healthy Love Making
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
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.
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Adventure People Teamwork
I didn’t want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
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Eight Fire Fun
Without risk, there can be no growth.
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Growth Happen Risk
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
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me…
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Differences Give Up Ordinary
The lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
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Hell Lessons Life Rewards

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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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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