I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

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.

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 was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

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

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

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