I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
BEAR GRYLLSThe extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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I’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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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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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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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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The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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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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I think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
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I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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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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