Bear Grylls
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Courage
In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.Collection: Fitness
As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.Collection: Diet
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.Collection: Age
Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.Collection: Famous
The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.Collection: Change
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.Collection: Chance
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.Collection: Faith
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.Collection: Fear
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.Collection: Space
Faith is personal if it's to be real.Collection: Faith
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.
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.
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.
I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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.
It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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.
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.
I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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.
I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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.
It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
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.
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.