《Mud，Sweat and Tears》经典语录

Bear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on the Isle of Wight, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. Inevitably, it wasn't long before Bear was leading out-of-bounds ni...(更多)

We don't fail you, you fail yourself.

When you are going through hell——keep going.

Men tend to think that they have to be funny, witty, or incisive on stage. You don't. You just have to be honest. If you can be intimate and give the inside story——emotions, doubts, struggles, fears, the lot——then people will respond.

(Brian) Above all, he and Vinnie, his wife, gave me Shara.

We were( are!) in love.

But in this book I wanted to show my roots: the early, bigger missions that shaped me, and the even earlier, smaller moments that steered me.

I didn't want to live in the past——just talking about Everest and looking like a has-been. ... Then I needed to start walking the talk.

But all I could think about was this beautiful blonde girl who laughed in the most adorable way, at how ridiculous it was to carry Shakespeare up a mountain.

Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, ice faces——all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top. It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says: if you have to ask, you will never understand.

I had never climbed for people's admiration, I had always climbed because I was half-decent at it——and now I had an avenue, through Everest, to explore that talent further.

So much of my identity was in the physical.

So that was Eton for me, and I look back now with a great sense of gratitude: gratitude that I got to have such a great notion that it is best to be the sort of person who messes about and plays the fool but who, when it really matters, is tough to the core. It favours the individual.