S17, Ep5 Bear Grylls on turning fear into courage
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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The Physicality of Altitude Sickness
It's very hard to describe the real high altitude effects of being in that that death zone above 25, 26,000 feet. I always say it's a bit like trying to climb in waist deep treacle whilst giving somebody a piggyback and then they're trying to stuff up your football socks down your throat at the same time. You're sucking, you're wheezing, you're not moving, you're sliding backwards. And many times I think back to that time on Everest and I watched that film, we were together and it brings a lot of those memories back. It's why the book was always going to be called Never Give Up. We all face our Everest every
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