I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.