About the book: 2014 / Bear Grylls - a famous traveler, TV presenter and writer - is sure that all people are endowed with an incredible margin of safety and are capable of doing courageous things. But many are not even aware of their capabilities. His new book is dedicated to men and women who, under the most difficult conditions, have discovered inexhaustible reserves of resilience, endurance and courage. Climbers and explorers of icy continents and deserts, shipwrecked sailors and victims of plane crashes, scouts and resistance fighters - the people from whom Bear Grylls learned courage, perseverance and faith in the victory of the human spirit.