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
Being charged by a furious matriarch elephant certainly had hearts in mouths, as did the snarling spitting Bengal tiger that gave us… — Steve Backshall Being Copy Share Image
I have deliberately stung myself with a small section of box jelly tentacle, and it felt like being burned by a steam… — Steve Backshall Being 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
Most of my job is out in the wild, miles away from the public and it's nice to see people and hear… — Steve Backshall Job Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be surrounded by all sorts of animals from a very young age. My sister Jo was much… — Steve Backshall Age 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 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
If the world's oceans have had nearly half a billion years with sharks as the apex predators, then the delicate balance of… — Steve Backshall 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
