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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

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Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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Adventure Thinking Travel
In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Air Running Special
If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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Gains Nothing Risk
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
What I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
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Journey Motivational Unique
You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Disaster Expectations Recipes
The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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Journey Single Steps
To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.
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Adventure Connections People
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
One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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Exercise Tree Vines
A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
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Overcoming Quality Self
Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right’. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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Cynical Hey Kids
I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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Animal Health Snakes
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
I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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Careers Climber Soldier
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Dangerous Desert Mountain

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