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Bear Grylls

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“You know, my body aches every day. I got many scars like an old man getting up in the morning. But I don't apologize for any of those things. And I think by the end of my life, if I can, I don't want to arrive in a perfectly preserved body. So that quote, I want to come skidding in sideways, covered in scars, screaming, yo, what a ride, you know. And long may that spirit continue.”
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“Well, the truth is I hope to be doing the same sort of thing in the sense that living this mission of trying to empower other people to find their adventures through all these different means, you know, through the TV shows or the books or whatever. I love that mission. It starts from our relationship with my kids and it extends to scouts and it extends beyond that from there. So I hope to have that same mission, maybe at a slightly slower pace. You know, we film a lot of shows at the moment and it's a way a lot and it is, you know, it's definitely has full-on elements to it. So maybe kind of dial down the pace a bit, but... Same mission and still protecting family first, you know, beyond before work, before even that mission, protect family first and keep those relationships strong.”
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“You eventually realize it, you know, and the girl, I suppose, her life is to get to this place early because it's where the wealth is. It's where the happiness is because you're not able to pretend any longer.”
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“Like all these things, there's a pain and a takes a strength to do it. But I think I'm not scared to show that. You know, I've got nothing to prove and I don't want people to think it's just all heroic. You know, I want people to know that there's been many struggles through it all. But these things have quietly helped me. And I always think people have two phases of their life. One is you don't want the world to see who you really are. You're out there. You project this kind of image. And then the second half is you no longer care. You just want to be honest. And when you're honest, there's an amazing bonds with the really people you want to create bonds with. And some people have that realization at 25 and they live the rest of life in this empowered way. Some people don't reach that point until they're 85. They live the whole life with this mask and it's only when with that maybe nurse and a nursing, the first person they're actually being honest and vulnerable and broken with.”
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“Well, first of all, Terry Crew's hero and one of our running wild guests, actually. I took him on one last year and he was like with you, very honest about some of this stuff. Vulnerability was hard initially, but I think it's where life is, you know, and like with when you climb any big mountain, you know, where you're roped to someone 24 hours a day, it brings you close. But it also is where the bonds are, you know, and when you're vulnerable someone, it creates a connection. You know, you and me probably feel more connected by being the vulnerability than the, look at this. Vulnerability creates bonds and creates strength.”
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“Well, I've definitely learned for writing or speaking. It has to be difficult. It has to be painful. You know, how often do we see the person who stands up and Stands on stage and gives a talk and loves the sound of their own voice, and it's just like it's a ball they're a ball. You know, but the person who's this is hard to articulate or talk about, but for what it's worth, this is where you're there. It's the same with writing. I think it's got to be vulnerable and it's got to have that struggle to it. And that's why it took me a while. What do you find? What did you feel?”
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“Know be honest in it. And so it took a long time to write, but I'm really proud of it. And I think it was always going to be cool never give up. You know, it's at a time where I think the world's coming through an incredibly continuous to be an incredibly tough time. And I think that spirit of relentless determination is needed more than ever with all people and young people especially. So I'm proud of the stories and proud to call it Never Give Up.”
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“It took a long time. You know, I was reluctant to write it. I wrote an autobiography called Mud, Sweat, and Tears originally. But the truth is, you know, and that book did well. It did 20 weeks at number one. And I always kind of felt that I'm not going to beat that. I'm not going to do another, but we're done. But that book really ended as TV started. And so many of the questions that I get asked by my kids and by people in the street always like the behind the scenes. What was it like on this? What was it like taking that person? Or what about the struggles there or whatever? And in a way, they're the stories that I wanted my boys to understand. And I think my kids are kind of grown up and seen the good side, seen the things that have worked, but aren't always aware of the many failures behind those successes. And I wanted to be able to share all of that and share the things that actually made the difference. And I wanted to write it myself.”
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“Have our families and have something we love to do and that we're safe and we live in this kind of a society that has a rule of law and all these things are so easy to take for granted. We must never take that for granted. We've got to live with that eyes wide open. Thank you and keep that adventure state in mind firing bright that fire inside shining bright.”
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“The adventures won't. God willing. I hope when, oh guy, I'm having loads of adventures with my kids and eventually with grandkids and sharing that adventure spirit because, as you know, you know, adventure is truly a state of mind. Whatever you're doing, whatever, you know, my wife always jokes that I'm going to be in the old people's home. Go, go on, go on. We're going to go over the, you know, and I think that's a state of mind that is about pushing the boundaries you know, having that resilience and that kind of wide-eye gratitude for life and the connections. And because the truth is, the world is amazing and it's a huge privilege. You look at everything that's happening around the world. There's hardship and struggling and battle and loss. And the fact that we get to...”
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“And I think, I mean, maybe I'll finish a TV show one day. That will naturally end in due course. I can't, I mean, to be honest, I never thought I'd still be doing it now, you know, but we're doing more TV shows than ever before. We're doing a new network show on US TV next month. We're starting season eight of Running Well, you know, we're still out there gunning it and going. And I love that. The TV shows will end”
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“And I hope not. I think it's like my bucket list gets longer and longer as I live in life. Yeah, it's like the more things we can do that and we could help do this. And I always want to live with that eyes wide open, you know, willing to be all in, willing to fail, willing to put myself up with great people, have all that focused mission of trying to empower other people, helping other people to find their adventures in life, whether it's through books or TV shows or whatever, to like be able to go that extra mile, to be able to dig deep, to understand the storms of life come, but sometimes you've got to be dogged and determined to keep going. I want to bring that adventure spirit to people every day I live on this earth. That's the goal.”
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“I hope not. I hope not. I'm still hustling. I like the struggle. I like the fight. I like the ambition. We've built a brilliant team. We're pushing many endeavors away from just the TV show. I'm super proud of our B military fit, our veterans fitness business. We have our theme parks, our adventure parks at the NEC and we're opening up new ones around the world. We have the scout staff. We have education initiatives. I love it. For me, it's about using this god-given platform we've been given through the TV shows to try and do exactly the same as we do with the TV shows, which is a shine of light on you and say, look what you can do.”
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“Camps and disaster areas, helping, serving, and when you get 57 million young people around the world saying, I make a promise to be kind and helpful. You know, it's amazing. There's a power to that and it's brilliant.”
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“Greatest honour in my life has been to, you know, be a small cog in this incredible worldwide machine of 55 million young people bound together by a common set of values, of respect and kindness and humility and adventure and determination and life skills. It's an amazing privilege. I never take it for granted. It's a worldwide force for good. It truly is. The scouting movement is unlike anything else out there. And it really has been the greatest honor in my life. And I love it. I can sum up my job as Chief Scout three words, you know, encourage, encourage, you know, and shine the light on the young people because the stuff that they get up to, the missions they're on, the efforts, the endeavors, the expert, what they do is amazing. They're leading the thing on climate change. They're leading in many refugees.”
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“Well, I don't think I've ever. I've never had an aspiration to be like a CEO. CEO has always felt very important, even though we are on the diary of a CEO. I never feel like a CEO.”
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“That it's worth protecting the thing of most value in your life. And I think then with success, what happens, you reach a point where you don't need that extra 100 grand. Maybe when you're getting it, maybe you've got to hustle a bit. Maybe you've got to make some sacrifices. You do. To be successful, you have to sacrifice. And I was the same. I had to in those early days. You got to go that extra mile. I'm not saying you don't. You do. But maybe you reach a point where enough's enough. Then what you're really saying to your girlfriend, or might be your wife or your kids at that stage, is that I value you more than the hundred grand. And when you're like successful, you know. It doesn't get any easier to say no To say”
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“Yeah, so when you drift over the line a few times, which we're going to do, you're still in surplus, you're still in surplus. And I think the wisdom and experience of life is knowing, do you know what? No, we should go and do that. I will go and do that events. That's important. But Knowing also the ones that are really protected, it's often the little things, isn't it? You know, like the linesman story, you know, like that school play or that Anniversary or whatever. And listen, I'm speaking from a place of flawed failure through many, many times, but I've learned through those things Because I've got it wrong many times. You just put it on there. Yeah, just been there and made mistakes and got them wrong. But I've learned through those.”
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“Well, I think the answer is at the same time you're hustling and you've got to work and you've got to build it and you're building it, especially when you get married and have kids, you're building for their future. And all of us have this struggle. But I think listening to that inner voice, you know, a little bit. And there's this line, isn't there, that we walk where this side is family, this side is work. And the problem is if you only try and walk this line, everyone's always asking favors. You know, it's just one off. It's one event. It's one thing. And before you know it, you're spending too long on this side of the line and you're creating damage and loss. It's only damage. It's losing loss on this side. And I think what I've learned is just shift the line a little bit. Make the line here.”
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“Be away too much and go and do that and do the extra episode and do the extra thing. And that, you know, Discovery Channel are asking for one more thing there. And you end up, burning the things are most valuable because you're way too much, you're focusing on this and always creates damage. And I'd say, sorry for those times there's way too much. And that's why I fought so hard to start to produce and make our own shows where we own the format and we could decide. I go, no, it's our boys half term. I'm not going to, even though it's, you know, Tom Cruise or whoever, I'm going to be at the half term for this. Shift onto the family, and it's been a great thing, it's been a key thing. and the other suffers work, it will always be that, you know, it'll be there and it's okay.”
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“Always going to make you happier, you know, and that's why I say if you want to know what someone's like, oh, so wife, because don't look at the press reports and don't read their own stories about themselves. You know, I was a person who really knows them when the mask is off and when it's the cameras aren't really, they're the ones. And it's not to say, you know, anyone's perfect, but try and save your best for them. And I think if you do ask my wife what. What I would love her to say. I'd love her to say that I was loyal and kind and fought for them. You know, that's what I just have always tried to do in my life and prioritize them. And many times in my life, in the early days of TV especially, there was so much pressure to...”
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“They're really beautiful, but you've got to protect them. And you've got to protect them, number one. And I think it's so easy in life to do the opposite, actually we take that one for granted and we produce our best. We produce our best for the at the dinner party to hold court and say the jokes. And it's the wrong way around. It's the wrong way round. Save your best. I think it's something I've learned and still try and I don't always get right by any means, but I know the goal is try and save my best for those I value the most, which is the closest relationship to you with your wife and with your kids, you know, save the best for them rather than kind of be tired and grumpy with them and then go out and then be on form. You know, it's trying to shift it the other way. And it's counterculture, but...”
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“I think loyalty and sticking through things and knowing the real us and that we're not perfect and we're there for each other creates a power to it. And I do look at relationships that are special like with your kids or with your wife as like stained glass. You know, you need to”
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“I literally saw boom. I saw the eyes well out just for a second, you know, and it was like, you know, you've got a guy, let's keep training or whatever we're doing. And I hope as I live and do more in life that I create more and more of those moments because there are many people I like I said, I stand on the shoulders of many giants that are the real heroes in my life and I definitely consider my dad one. I definitely consider those. I served alongside in the military many still friends to this day. I mean, I was with Corporal Williams, my old squadron, you know, patrol commander who's now a 70. And lives in Merthyr Tydville. I was with him the other day for a walk in the Breckens. Just remind him, I go, you've been an amazing friend through life, and I'll never forget the belief you had in me in the early days. Thank you, you know.”
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“And eventually said, I'm going to say to her. He said, Dad, I just want to just let you know I really love you. And this song, his dad goes, You've been drinking. You know, but the thing is, that's okay. His dad would go home that night knowing that he hadn't been drinking the guy. His son hadn't been drinking. But that was special. And I think those awkward, it's backed up thing of doing sometimes the awkward difficult things like the prayer with Obama. A really good thing, you know, and I've tried to get better at this in my life of saying thank you and doing nice things and saying awkward but good things to people. I mean, I said it to my great buddy the other day, Rupert. I said to him, you know, we work a lot together and stuff. So I said, you know, forget the work side of these. You're such a lovely friend.”
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“But, you know, I think for you, your dad knows, I'm sure he knows, but never stop telling him, you know, because I think really parental relationship is one of those ones that's always going to be, they're always going to be dynamics and struggles and fallouts and arguments and stuff, but you can never articulate it too much that you love someone and you can never overestimate how much those simple, awkward, difficult words to say mean. I mean, my great buddy. He really wanted to tell his dad one time he loved him, but he knew so English he wouldn't, his father, it would be a really difficult thing to say.”
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“Well, I think I'll say thank you for the little things. You know, it's not that it's thanks for being there on that touchline when I was linesman. You know, thanks for not putting too much focus just on success and school reports and being top. Thank you, everybody focus on being kind and having a dream, even though it might not be the path most trodden. But go for it. If it's your dream, go for it. Thanks for saying that never give up is the golden currency of life rather than good looks, sporty talent or academic brilliance.”
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“Never take that for granted and never be scared of saying it. I mean, Tell him now, you know, tell him on this. He'll listen to this. He's probably incredibly, incredibly proud of you. All you've achieved, superseded his wildest dreams of what has sunk could be. And he should be proud and”
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“Wow, you were right, you were actually right all along when I kicked against it and kind of, you know, you were right, you know, fully your dreams, be kind, be resilient, never give up. And I never said thank you enough”
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“My dad, or he would never know them and how like he was they are and all of these dynamics that we take for granted and so often I see friends now and they go my you know my mum's a bit poorly and my dad I'm thinking there's part of me thinking you know you're so lucky to have had your parents for that long and we were always dealing with looking after sort of my mum and all her sort of bills and everything and you know when I was 25 you know it's been going on a long time but At the same time, I think my dad Me so many of the key things in life, which was back to that earlier point, be resilient and be kind and get going. And those things. Always be grateful for. And I wish my only regret is that I can get a chance to say to him.”
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“There's often a sort of a plan there. You've just got to try and keep moving forward towards it. But that was definitely a dark time. And I think also losing my dad at a young age. I mean, Shara and my wife and me both lost our parents within 10 weeks of each other in year one of marriage and it was we were young we were 24 25 and just starting out on life and I think we always had that safety net of our parents behind us you know and and I think suddenly both losing our dads and now being responsible for our mums and it was it definitely took that safety net away and it was like wow we're both dealing with trauma here Not always very well, but we got to, I mean I look back now and actually it's what made us made us really tight and to have a love and a trust and a vulnerability together that has been key thing in our relationship I think ever since but at the time it was just pure pain and a huge hole that is still there to the day you know I mean you know seeing our three boys grow up great the great loss for me is that you know they will never know”
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“One was when I broke my back in the military and was in rehabilitation for a long time. And, you know, so much of my rock in my life had been that I was physically strong and I was doing a job I loved and suddenly I couldn't even reach the bathroom without excruciating agony and my back was broken in three places and I had to then leave my job with the military and it was just what am I going to do in my life. But I also look at that time and I think If I had gone through that, I don't think I ever would have actually had the drive and the impetus to make that Everest expedition happen at that young age and have done that. That wouldn't have opened the door to other things and then eventually the TV. And, you know, it's like these clouds that often, you know, it's why not to be scared when life does hit you sideways because”
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“And to gravitate towards those, seek those things in our life, be outside, be connected, train, you know, be honest, have a few friends. The more it's going to help us when we do have the dark moments. I've never met anyone who doesn't have them. You know, they might tell you, but everyone has his moments, and I certainly have But I've also never met a strong person who's had an easy past. You know, it's just part of it. If you're going to go for big things and you're going to shoot through the top, you're going to have struggles and failures and part of life”
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“Just a few good friends rather than lots and lots of friends. Even things like our B military fit, our BMF, our veterans-run fitness business, has helped me so much because it's a collective tribe often veterans, people who need that camaraderie but want to train, want to stay physically fit, don't want to be in a gym inside with white light and all of that. They want to be outside in the fresh air. They want to be down in the dirt a little bit. They want to laugh at themselves and situations and face a few, you know, rain swept early mornings training outside in a park together. And like our physical health, the more we can be aware of the things that do help and have proven to help.”
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“I think I've been lucky in the sense that I've never suffered from really bad depression, where many, many friends have stood alongside, have really had battles. I think I've always had a... An intuition of when I need to change something and when I'm struggling a little bit and when, hold on, this feeling of anxiety has been going on a bit. What can we change? What helps me? I've always sort of accidentally found things That help make that problem better. And for me, it's been that go to being hatdoors, being with great friends, having a few.”
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“Build up that resource in a world that often depletes the resource. All of this stuff is always pulling. Leaves you emptier. But for me, the wild and connection and the sun and outdoors and swimming cold rivers and challenge and failing and all these. I find for me help my mental health. You can't take your eye off the ball with mental health. You've got to. And you're not always going to get it right. And that's okay.”
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“Always going to be a little part of your heart that is going to struggle a bit whether it's emotional, physical or mental. So you've got to try and put things in place that help your mental health. And I think people for many years often neglected that you shut things away. But actually so many of the things that help us mentally are simple things. As you say, those connections to people and that honesty and vulnerability. And like we've been talking about, not letting yourself sort of live a life that actually isn't real, not letting people make you into that hero that you don't always fear. You know, stay honest, stay connected, talk to people, you know, be outside how many times do we see studies proving that when we're outside and we're in the sun and we're expressing and we're working hard and we're connected to people. That's why the wild is such an amazing mental health weapon to”
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“First of all, it's amazing that people are talking about this and focusing on it more. I think it's long overdue and it's a key part of our arsenal for life, isn't it? Our weapons that are going to help make your heart happy. You need to look after the physical. You need to look after the emotional. You need to look after the spiritual. And you need to look after the mental side of things. You know, it's all these are all weapons in our arsenal. We've got to focus on. And if you neglect one,”
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“Not to flip, it's sort of direct people a little bit And I get such a kick out of that. It's why I love running wild so much, because it's about other people. It's about taking these rookies. It might be amazing rookies, but they're often wilderness rookies. and opening their eyes to my office, you know, the outdoors, what the wire can do for people, that light inside, that pride, that come on, you know, that magic. And saying, look at this. And that freed me a lot away from kind of look that way instead of this way.”
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“About other people, you know, and when I read people coming up and they weren't going, you're amazing. They would go, I took my sun camping or my whatever did that. And when I realized it was about them and I really tried to shift it in my brain, everything's about them. You know, it's what it brings out, whether it's a single mum coming to me saying, when you once said about you in that storm in the jungle and you said sometimes life is going to beat you up and you just got to be dogged and keep going keep your head down you know the storms won't last forever and i really understood that as a single mom i was trying to hold down all these jobs i've got you know that for me lifted my whole i thought that's why i do this job and it kind of shifted it off me and and and and that's why i've always loved my job now is like chief scout you know for me that was a revolution to be able to say when people come up to me go you know oh you've done this was now yeah but look what you could do you could join you know you could join that and you can do this and you know somewhere to be able to”
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“And my heart sank. I really started to struggle with it and I suddenly started to think when we were filming, I'd be like self-conscious and what am I saying? And the fun went out of it and I got more anxious with it all. And I thought, I don't want people looking at this or doing this. And it was a really sort of marked time. And the crew said it, so they said, is everything okay? And I think I had to learn to...”
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“I think I struggle with it when I felt the attention was on me. I think I didn't like that. I remember so well in the early days when we started doing Man Versus Wild, first two seasons, we were just gunning and going and it was all just kind of fun. Out there with small crew. I never really didn't see it go down tell you it was going out in America at the time. So I was over in the UK. I didn't see it. I didn't know what was happening. It was just lucky. It was good timing and it just worked, you know, just was meant to be at that time. But I didn't really see much of that because I come home and... Live regularly. And I remember the head of Discovery after a couple of seasons say, you know, your show is best on discovery. It's getting over a billion viewers now around the world.”
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“So I take it all with a bucket of salt. I think for my family growing up with a little bit of that, I always say to our boys growing up. We got friends all over the world and looked at it like that amazing connections. You know, I can go to any country and there's a connection with people there and people want to tell their stories and go, oh, we've just been camping with my, you know, with my son or my uncle was this or did that or my sons are scout, daughter's a scout, or whatever it is. And I like those connections, always grateful for people's stories. And that's fine. So that's how I kind of look at it. Pinches all, don't believe it all. Always be grateful for friends all over the world.”
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“Just a pinch of salt, but with a bucket of salt. You know, don't believe it. It doesn't, it's not where you're worth. If your worth is that, you're always going to struggle because it goes up and down. Ultimately, it's going down, isn't it? When we're 95 years old, nobody's going to know who I am. Speak for yourself. I'm joking. Well, and it doesn't matter. But a certain self-worth, you're always going to be fighting a losing battle, really.”
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“This producer said, Do you want to try this thing? And like I said, we were just married and starting out and pretty broke. And it was like, let's go for it. Let's see what happens. But the sort of the recognition side of things, you know, I struggle with the word fame. I think it's a weird one. But I think the recognition side of things I struggle with more. And I think part of it is a little part of me feels I'm never going to be quite as good as people expect, you know, in as a TV sometimes makes out and therefore less is more very happy with my family and friends and I go and work but I want to kind of come home afterwards but when it comes to fame you know you say that you say about that I've I kind of learned I think over the years to first we'll take it with a”
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“Well, I think that's true. I think part of my kind of. The answer is I don't do very many of these. I think, but that's okay. I'm not a sort of hungry for more people to know everything. You know, I do these sort of things every now and again with good people. And when it feels right, you know, I think one of the reasons I get less comfortable sometimes in big groups of people and doing press self or doing.”
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“Two Russians and a Brit in New Zealander from other teams. But they're on the mountain at the same time and never came back. And I remember with their teammates afterwards, just then in tears and sitting with them. And it definitely made me question a lot at the time, is any mountain really worth a life? I wish your clear answer is no. But at the time, sometimes your ambition is, you know, it's like, we're going to go for it. And that's why I think now kind of with a bit of time and experience, would I do it now? Would I take a one or six chance of not coming home now? No, because you have more to live for. But I think at the time I was like, I'm all in. I'm going to go. I want to make my mark, you know, at a young age. And the truth is I got lucky. Yeah, what does that one mean”
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“you know in everything in life that there's no guarantees you know we're we we live a gloves off life you know life is gloves off the rules of kind of like if you if you give this all going to be you know roses and sunshine you know you can give the best in the world it's going to be hit you sometimes you know you get ill or something happens and i think that's the part of me that got a bit shaken and but you know that's just life and you have to live with your eyes wide open to that and and still choose to try and make the good decisions and pick the good attitudes and put them on like a t-shirt every day that even though gloves are off we're going to go for this we're going to do our best to be positive do our best to give our best and keep going for it”
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“I think I came away with a real awareness of that I'd been really lucky and got away with my life where others hunt up there. And this stage, Everest was killing one and six people's lives. And beforehand, I read about that and it was almost kind of almost glamorous. It was almost like romantic. But you see the reality of it close up and it's not romantic. It's dark and difficult and confusing. And I think my feeling at the end of it was that I got really lucky. no doubt dug deep in a few big moments and some 92 days on that mountain so there's a lot of time to do you do have to dig deep but ultimately had a bit of luck at key times and i think i came away aware of that and and grateful for that but less certain that just because you're determined in life doesn't mean everything is going to go well you know and i think beforehand i kind of thought if you give everything it's all going to work out but”
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“Big mountains are humbling, you know, and sometimes you take on this big project and it's about, come on, we're going to do it and you're full of that confidence. But it's often quite surface. And I think when you see things close up and”
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