Accidents on big mountains ...

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.
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.
 Bear Grylls

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
 Bear Grylls
A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
 Bear Grylls
Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
 Bear Grylls
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!
 Bear Grylls
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
 Bear Grylls