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.
0 《Mud，Sweat and Tears》
Talk is cheap when you are safely tucked up back in London.
I experienced a stillness that I did not think existed.
We don't fail you, you fail yourself.
Her response is called grace, and it amazed me.
It wasn't a big part of me, but it was an ember. Sometimes an ember is all we need.
We were( are!) in love.
So much of my identity was in the physical.
Everest never has been, and never will be conquered. This is part of what makes the mountain so special.
Ever close.
Ever further away.
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.
Mum's generosity ensured that as adults we never became too attached to, or attracted by money. I learnt from her that before you can get, you have to give, and that money is like a river——if you try to block it and dam it, then, like a dammed river, the water will go stagnant and stale, and your life will fester.
With a determination to live life to the max.
That is not how I have vowed to live my life. After my accident I had vowed to be bold and follow my dreams, wherever that road should lead.
It was a decision I had already made years earlier.
But as far as I was concerned the sky and clouds had parted, and nothing would ever be the same again.
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.
When written in chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
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.
You climb the mountain because the moutain allows you to.
One was the determination to achieve something special and lasting in my life. To find that pride that lasts a lifetime, to have endured, to have been tested and to have prevailed.
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves. If we tell ourselves often enough that we don't have what it takes, then that will inevitably become our reality.
(Brian) Above all, he and Vinnie, his wife, gave me Shara.
But above all, I fell a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough.
It is about understanding that the moment to shine brightest is when all about you is dark.
What I didn't realize was that it would be a mountain, the mountain, that would be at the heart of my recovery.
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.
(Everest) It had become what so many dreams become——just that ——nothing more, nothing less. Covered in dust, never a reality.
When you are going through hell——keep going.
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 education.
The 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.
Years later, Shara and I christened our three boys with this snow water from Everest's summit. Life moments.
贝尔·格里尔斯（EdwardMichaelGrylls），又译作贝尔·吉罗斯，出生于1974年，英国登山家、主持人、畅销书家、国际演说家。在主持《荒野求生》系列节目中，贝尔的户外探险生活吸引了全世界十亿人的关注。2012年3月13日，因为长期与雇主《发现》频道就一个新节目没有达成一致意见而被解聘，他也失去了参加该频道为他准备的两个节目的机会。
