Bear Grylls

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. ”

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. ”

When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home. ”

I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure. ”

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. ”

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling. ”