Then, you get familiar with it and learn to recognise it. You’ve got to walk towards it, embrace it and make the conscious choice to do it. “Doubt is part of life, but I’ve learnt to deal with it,” he says matter of factly. Never Give Up reveals many behind-the-scenes close calls, and also lays bare Bear’s struggles with self-doubt and anxiety. Having just read his new book-a sequel to the 2012 autobiography Mud, Sweat and Tears- this isn’t as much of a surprise as it should be. Bear took Barack Obama into the Alaskan wild in 2015, when Obama was still President of the United States of America (Getty)

I get so much more anxious and nervous there than anywhere else,” he admits to me over our quick, intercontinental Zoom call. “Being in big crowded rooms full of people I don’t know in big bustling cities. The man who faces wild animals and nature at its worst, takes presidents and prime ministers on terrifying rides, and casually cheats death like it’s no big deal, is frightened of.

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