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.

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.

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 do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

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

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.