I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.
I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.