Up: My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest

by Ben Fogle

My point is that without risk we cannot grow.

‘To love is to risk not being loved in return, to live is to risk dying, to hope is to risk despair, to try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.’

The problem with modern society is that we are all mentally shattered, but our bodies are largely unchallenged.