Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

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.

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.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.