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

I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.

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.

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me... and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different... and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it.

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.

What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities