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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Bear Grylls

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Dangerous Desert Mountain
I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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Attitude Job Running
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.
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Army Soldier Years
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Luck Matter Trying
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
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
The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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Journey Single Steps
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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Grow Survival
I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.
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Bravery Gone People
All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Bigs Climbing Throwing
Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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Embers Needs Sometimes
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
I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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Know Looks World
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
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 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

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