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I read most often when I am on the road, travelling on my journeys. In cars, on planes, trains… I’m very lucky that I don’t get car sick when I am reading and I can spend really long journeys immersed in a book!

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I was lucky enough to be surrounded by all sorts of animals from a very young age. My sister Jo was much more into the domestic animals – horses and things. I was absolutely fixated on the blackbirds, and the grass snakes in the manure heap and everything that surrounded us.

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The older I’ve got, the more I’ve yearned for heritage, for a sense of belonging and coming from somewhere.

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Lose the sharks, the mighty, mysterious lords of the deep, and our planet‘s oceans would be infinitely poorer places.

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Well, there are without doubt species of jellyfish around the world that are potentially lethal to human beings, some of which shut beaches for entire seasons. The box jellyfish of Australasia is officially the world’s most venomous creature, and has killed swimmers in the past.

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Even my fiction novels are all about outdoor adventure, and have plenty of information to encourage the reader to get interested in adventure and conservation.

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I started climbing in my late teens, but I wasn’t passionate about it back then. My first experience was being dragged up peaks by my parents; freezing cold with nothing to see.

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I’ve been doing expeditions for a living for more than 20 years and know all about what you have to go through psychologically to separate yourself from the modern world.

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I think most schoolboys are most excited by scorpions, spiders and snakes, and I never really grew up. I’ve always had the same fascinations. I think that we as human beings are the most fascinated by those creatures that we consider dangerous.

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I am very driven by things that scare and frighten me, and things that might be tough for me.

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My job has changed so much over recent years because of social media. You can now watch a programme and see how the audience respond to certain moments and it was overwhelming to see how people responded to ‘Big Blue Live’.

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If I could be any animal I’d probably be a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wing span. Being able to cover huge distances of sea every single day would be wonderful!

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The number one piece of advice that you would ever get with working with any large predator is don’t run. If you stand confident up in its face it’ll probably just wander away, but if you turn and run it triggers what’s known as the predatory impulse.

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People do get hurt by jellyfish, as they do by sharks and spiders, and I have great sympathy for the anguish and pain these effects may cause, but if you pay any attention to the statistics it is clear that nature is not out to get us.

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My dad will sit out in the last tiny corner of the garden that has sunshine until the millisecond the final vestige has gone! As kids we were encouraged to head out of the front door at daybreak, and not come back till we were tired and hungry.

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All my books draw heavily on my own experiences, and these are not just places I have gone to on holiday, they’re locations I know them intimately from lengthy expeditions, most of which have been spent on the hunt for wildlife.

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I had a good deal of power work – lots of plyometrics, callisthenics, tossing big tyres. It’s all geared towards having that explosiveness available when you need it.

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Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future would lie with writing.

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The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to live.

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I’m driven by the sense that there are still parts of the planet that no one knows anything about.

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People are used to seeing natural history programmes that have been filmed over many years which are concentrated, focused visions of natural history.

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People that love dogs have an emotional connection with them and I just think they are the most loving and fun pets you can have.

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Britain has some of the finest climbing on the planet, with a sense of wilderness that rivals anywhere else on earth. You can be on a rock face watching crashing waves and feeling a million miles away but because we’re a small isle, you’re never really that remote; there’s always a village nearby.

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Certainly jellyfish are seasonal, and owing to a complex range of environmental features there are years when they will appear in far greater numbers.

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And I’m completely into the idea of being a dad. If the opportunity arises for us to switch roles and let Helen get back into competition, then yes I’d take on the role of a stay-at-home dad. I’d be all over it.

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I take my laptop everywhere with me, and I will write on long journeys. I will write sitting in my hammock in the middle of the rainforest. When everybody else is chilling out after filming, I am usually writing!

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I want to share my passion for the world’s beauty and give others new reasons to care.

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I grew up on a small holding, it was a great way to grow up and incredibly idyllic. We had a donkey and Barney the guard dog, geese, a duckling that followed my mum around and used to sit in the washing up bowl.

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I have deliberately stung myself with a small section of box jelly tentacle, and it felt like being burned by a steam iron. Larger stings can lead to cardiac arrest, and mind-blowing pain.

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After more than 40 years of living in the British countryside, any day I see a badger is precious. I knew the location of every sett in the woods around my childhood home, but rarely saw them with my own eyes.

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We have a fantastic array of birds of prey here in the U.K.

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I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

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A crocodile just swung around and hit me with its teeth. It took a big chunk off my leg.

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Fences split up the territory that a hedgehog has to forage in so having a little hole in your fence could well enable it to move in and out of your garden.

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A lot of people think it’s insane to swim out in blue water with a great white shark, but my experience tells me I can do it safely. Other people might consider it mad, granted, but then I might think what they do is mad.

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If the world’s oceans have had nearly half a billion years with sharks as the apex predators, then the delicate balance of its food webs must rely on their presence in complex ways we cannot possibly predict.

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I was always really into the facts and figures and the statistics about nature and I always loved learning about it and having a new fact on hand. For me it was non-stop dirt, climbing trees and catching lizards and beetles. That was my thing as soon as I could crawl.

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I don’t think your life can be complete without a dog.

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And there are very few wild animals that can’t run down a human being; the big predators would run down Usain Bolt without even thinking about it. So your only chance is to stand your ground!

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I love what I do for a living and even if I wasn’t getting paid for it I would still pursue an active, outdoors lifestyle, researching animals and looking after them.

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