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Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
Ann Bancroft
Education
School
College
High
High School
High School And College
Through
Greatest
Getting
Achievements
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
Ann Bancroft
Teacher
Me
Struggle
Tremendous
Saw
Some
Something
Student
Had
Readers
Lousy
Wanted
Teachers
Who
Lucky
For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
Ann Bancroft
Me
Better
Overcome
Passion
Think
Our
Strive
Ourselves
Excel
Struggles
Area
Push
Never
Obstacles
Know
Greatest
Itself
Get
Where
Ice
This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
Ann Bancroft
Education
Journey
Our
Arctic
More
Sharing
Over
Return
Committed
Stories
Much
Momentum
Even
Initiatives
The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.
Ann Bancroft
Needs
Women
Voices
Volume
Heard
Up
Turned
Need
My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.
Ann Bancroft
Me
Year
Older
Waterfall
Our
Seventh
Backyard
Brother
He
How
Climber
Off
Grade
Taught
Frozen
Bill
Who
I think that women on expeditions often get sucked into giving 150 percent of themselves because they feel they have to prove themselves physically equal to men. We get ourselves into trouble and burn out.
Ann Bancroft
Women
Men
Giving
Trouble
Think
Ourselves
Out
Percent
Physically
Feel
Equal
Because
Prove
Get
Often
Burn
Themselves
Sucked
Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way.
Ann Bancroft
Family
Own
Everyone
Way
Risk
His
Her
I give a tremendous amount of weight to the mental aspect of physical activity and what it does for me.
Ann Bancroft
Me
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Physical
Physical Activity
Mental
Give
Weight
Does
Aspect
Activity
Amount
I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall.
Ann Bancroft
Dreams
You
Achieve
Fall
Pocket
Know
Going
Order
Want
Which
Full
Whole
To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
Bear Grylls
Me
You
People
Adventure
Bounds
Always
Been
Anywhere
Create
Connections
My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
Bear Grylls
Life
Faith
Strength
Man
My Life
Important
Difficult
Backbone
Say
Has-Been
Through
He
Part
Takes
Over
Important Part
Learnt
Proud
Proud Man
Been
Years
Lot
Times
Quiet
Anything
Need
Difficult Times
You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
Bear Grylls
Life
You
Live
Recipe
Else
Someone
Disaster
Expectations
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
Bear Grylls
Life
Death
Willing
Determined
Between
Line
Faith is personal if it's to be real.
Bear Grylls
Faith
Be Real
Real
Personal
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
Bear Grylls
Life
Myself
Me
My Life
Gave
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Some
Self-Confidence
Forces
Climbing
Cemented
Then
Special
Special Forces
Belief
Everest
Things
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.
Bear Grylls
Swimming
Would
Running
Above
Hill
Couple
Limited
Ready
Climb
Underwater
Lot
Get
Did
Gets
Going
Oxygen
Then
Body
Your
Your Body
Swim
Everest
The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
Bear Grylls
Me
You
Awareness
Wild
Resourceful
Unpredictability
Develop
Come
React
Up
Plan
Act
Appeal
Fast
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
Bear Grylls
Faith
You
Heart
Radical
Christian
Wildest
Guy
Come
Most
Across
Ever
Christian Faith
Jesus
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
Bear Grylls
Courage
Women
Rubble
Earthquakes
Some
Days
Look
Greatest
Been
End
Surviving
Survivors
After
Many
Shown
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
Bear Grylls
Stupid
Enough
Else
Nobody
Nobody Else
Get
Themselves
You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
Bear Grylls
You
See
Bear
Often
Suit
You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
Bear Grylls
Me
You
Treat
Fear
Edge
Give
Give Me
Emotion
Feel
Sharpens
Learnt
Human
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
Bear Grylls
Society
High
Folk
Determined
Come
Line
Grand
I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
Bear Grylls
Lion
You
Eyes
Sheep
Ounce
Eaten
Give
Hot
Calories
Still
Which
Meat
As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
Bear Grylls
You
Try
Too Much
Slow
Healthy
Nothing
Down
Dairy
Too
Eat
Clean
Lean
Because
Surprising
Diet
Much
Avoid
Meat
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