Bear Grylls

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

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.

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.

I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

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.

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

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.

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

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.

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.

The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.