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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.

Bear Grylls

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Bear Grylls
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 7
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Edward Michael Grylls
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