It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

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

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

Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win.

A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.

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