Baffin Island was extraordinary; one of the most terrifying things I've done. — Steve Backshall Done 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 Life Copy Share Image
I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis. — Steve Backshall Book Copy Share Image
Lose the sharks, the mighty, mysterious lords of the deep, and our planet's oceans would be infinitely poorer places. — Steve Backshall Deep Copy Share Image
I am very driven by things that scare and frighten me, and things that might be tough for me. — Steve Backshall Am Copy Share Image
I grew up on a small holding, it was a great way to grow up and incredibly idyllic. We had a donkey… — Steve Backshall Dog 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,… — Steve Backshall Cold Copy Share Image
I've been doing expeditions for a living for more than 20 years and know all about what you have to go through… — Steve Backshall Adventure Copy Share Image
I think if you go out with too hard a conservation message, then you convince people that it's all doom and gloom… — Steve Backshall Climate 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… — Steve Backshall Big Copy Share Image
The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to… — Steve Backshall Animal Copy Share Image
The night sky, seen from a deserted foothold where no man-made light shines, is more spectacular than any giant cinema screen could… — Steve Backshall Cinema 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
Well, there are without doubt species of jellyfish around the world that are potentially lethal to human beings, some of which shut… — Steve Backshall Around the world Copy Share Image
The flesh-eating cockroaches and venomous centipedes in the Gomantong cave in Borneo were pretty unsavoury. They turn the floor of the cave,… — Steve Backshall Bird Copy Share Image
Living my life in conservation, I see far greater tragedies and crimes against wildlife than the loss of a few thousand badgers.… — Steve Backshall Animals 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… — Steve Backshall Better Copy Share Image
Britain has some of the finest climbing on the planet, with a sense of wilderness that rivals anywhere else on earth. You… — Steve Backshall Britain 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 appreciate that I'm in the privileged situation of getting to spend my entire life outdoors with wildlife, and I know first… — Steve Backshall Animals 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… — Steve Backshall Day 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
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
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
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
I know plenty of people who live in the country who have never seen a badger. They are definitely there, but these… — Steve Backshall Country 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
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
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
My favourite climb is St Kilda, west of Benbecula in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. It's incredibly remote, with the highest sea cliffs in… — Steve Backshall Climb 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 Fence Copy Share Image
I honestly expected me learning Welsh to be met with a certain amount of cynicism, even outright hostility from some. But that… — Steve Backshall Cynicism 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 Best 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
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
