I had a good deal of power work - lots of plyometrics, callisthenics, tossing big tyres. It's all geared towards having that… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
My job has changed so much over recent years because of social media. You can now watch a programme and see how… — Steve Backshall Blue Copy Share Image
I made my first conservation series for National Geographic in 2000. Ever since I've been finding ways of making my own life… — Steve Backshall Conservation Copy Share Image
Climbing is never going to be 100% safe, but the climbing I do with work is done under much stricter guidelines than… — Steve Backshall Climbing Copy Share Image
I read most often when I am on the road, travelling on my journeys. In cars, on planes, trains... I'm very lucky… — Steve Backshall Books Copy Share Image
Certainly jellyfish are seasonal, and owing to a complex range of environmental features there are years when they will appear in far… — Steve Backshall Environmental Copy Share Image
A lot of people think it's insane to swim out in blue water with a great white shark, but my experience tells… — Steve Backshall Blue Copy Share Image
I guess I'm a dog person, so the canids have a special power for me. And yet wolves are everything our own… — Steve Backshall Dog Copy Share Image
My dad will sit out in the last tiny corner of the garden that has sunshine until the millisecond the final vestige… — Steve Backshall Dad Copy Share Image
I know plenty of people who live in the country who have never seen a badger. They are definitely there, but these… — Steve Backshall Badger Copy Share Image
If there remain places on the planet that are un-known, unspoilt corners, a laboratory for evolution still exists - a snapshot of… — Steve Backshall Biology Copy Share Image
It's going to sound terribly glib and cliched but the more I learn about animals, the more convinced I am that almost… — Steve Backshall Animals Copy Share Image
If I could be any animal I'd probably be a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wing span. Being able to… — Steve Backshall Albatross Copy Share Image
And there are very few wild animals that can't run down a human being; the big predators would run down Usain Bolt… — Steve Backshall Animal Copy Share Image
My wife Helen is Cornish and both sides of her family are Cornish going back at least a dozen generations. And I… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Several of my books are 'How to' guides, specifically about getting outdoors, giving kids and parents ideas for what to do in… — Steve Backshall Book Copy Share Image
I'm not a great technical climber, but over the years it has given me the opportunity to see wonderful corners of Britain… — Steve Backshall Experience Copy Share Image
All my books draw heavily on my own experiences, and these are not just places I have gone to on holiday, they're… — Steve Backshall Adventure Copy Share Image
People are used to seeing natural history programmes that have been filmed over many years which are concentrated, focused visions of natural… — Steve Backshall Dreams Copy Share Image
People do get hurt by jellyfish, as they do by sharks and spiders, and I have great sympathy for the anguish and… — Steve Backshall Attention Copy Share Image
Even my fiction novels are all about outdoor adventure, and have plenty of information to encourage the reader to get interested in… — Steve Backshall Adventure Copy Share Image
Fences split up the territory that a hedgehog has to forage in so having a little hole in your fence could well… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I love what I do for a living and even if I wasn't getting paid for it I would still pursue an… — Steve Backshall Animals Copy Share Image
I take my laptop everywhere with me, and I will write on long journeys. I will write sitting in my hammock in… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
More than anything there is the sense of scale: you can fly for hours and hours of Alaska and you look down… — Steve Backshall Alaska Copy Share Image
I think most schoolboys are most excited by scorpions, spiders and snakes, and I never really grew up. I've always had the… — Steve Backshall Animals Copy Share Image
My best generic tip, would be to be always thinking of an escape strategy. Always look around you and think 'what if'?… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I'm actually getting to the stage where places I travelled to for the first time in the early 1990s are now unrecognisable.… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I started climbing in my late teens, but I wasn't passionate about it back then. My first experience was being dragged up… — Steve Backshall Climbing Copy Share Image
If you ask most wildlife film-makers or biologists what the greatest wildlife spectacle on Earth is, they'll say wildebeest migration or the… — Steve Backshall Animals Copy Share Image
I was always really into the facts and figures and the statistics about nature and I always loved learning about it and… — Steve Backshall Climbing trees Copy Share Image
