I was always really into the facts and figures and the statistics about nature and I always loved learning about it and… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis. — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Hedgehogs need somewhere to hibernate through the winter, but also a place that they can lie out at during the day. So have a… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I come from an area of southern England that is utterly homogenous. All the history near me is about royalty and fealty, things which… — 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 peaks by… — Steve Backshall 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 that I… — Steve Backshall 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 adventure and… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
In the Himalayas, I spent some of the most exhilarating moments of my life, shooting white water rapids in a kayak. — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I had a good deal of power work - lots of plyometrics, callisthenics, tossing big tyres. It's all geared towards having that explosiveness available… — Steve Backshall 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 greater numbers. — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Baffin Island was extraordinary; one of the most terrifying things I've done. — Steve Backshall 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 all the… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
There's nothing more paralysing or more likely to make people fall into a malaise of believing they are powerless than just hearing that everything's… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
