There are no atheists in a situation like that!

When my parachute ripped and I fell thou­sands of feet to earth, you'd better believe I was crying out to God — you don't get many atheists in a situation like that! And maybe my prayers were answered because the surgeon later said I came 'within a whisker' of total paralysis.       

       Eighteen months later, as I stood on top of Everest mesmer­ised by the incredible curvature of the earth from the top of the world's highest mountain, it was just natural to feel, 'Wow, God, you made all this?' I guess that is worship. And what a privilege to climb mountains with the One who made them.
       My Christian faith has so often been a quiet backbone to our life as a family and through my work. 

      When I took President Obama into the Alaskan wilderness for an episode of Running Wild, it was a special moment to finish the adventure by praying together. Out in the wild you discover pretty quickly that even the most famous, extraordinary people are asking the same questions and looking for the same things in life as all the rest of us. 

       It was another president — Abraham Lincoln — who once confessed, 'I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go.' Smart and humble man.


Bear Grylls