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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

Bear Grylls

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Bear Grylls
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 7
Adventurer
Explorer
Motivational Speaker
Mountaineer
Television Presenter
Writer
London
England
Edward Michael Grylls
Bigs
Thing
Good
Things
Life
Climbing
Throwing

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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.
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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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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
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I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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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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Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.
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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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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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The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
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Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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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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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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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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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
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Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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