All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

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.

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

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

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.

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.

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

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

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.

And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

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.

The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.

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

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

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.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

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.

You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.