This is NPR's Life Kit.

I'm Andy Tagle, one of the producers of this show.

As a lifelong city-dweller, I'm not big on heavy-duty adventure.

A day hike?

Sure.

And here by camping weekend with friends and a carload of gear, can do.

But anything much more wild than that…

Yeah, not really where my strength fly.

When I went off to college, for example, my parents half jokingly gifted me a book titled

Be Safe, Simple Strategies for Death-Free Living.

I have, in fact, put myself in more than one precarious scenario with a toaster oven.

But if I'm being honest, it's more than being a bit accident prone that holds me back

from big adventures.

It's fear.

Those constant what-ifs, what-next, what-nails.

Bear grills is more familiar than most with that sentiment.

Fear has been a huge part of my life and I definitely feel it all the time.

You know, I mean, it's a part of my job, it was a part of my job through the military,

it was a part of my job on many expeditions.

Bear is the host of the show running wild with Bear Grills and is arguably the world's

most famous survivalist and adventurer.

For years, he's travelled all over the earth, literally dropped into harsh environments

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