Survival expert Bear Grylls reckons he’s cheated death at least 21 times.
The telly adventurer fears he is running out of lives after so many scrapes in the wild.
Bear, 47, said: “I can count a solid 21 times I should’ve died during the early episodes of our TV shows.
“Not a number I’m proud of, but in the early days we didn’t know any better.
“Bitten by snakes, falling down crevasses, pinned in rapids, avalanches, rockfalls, that time in the Costa Rican jungle I thought it was a good idea to use a vine to rappel down a 100ft waterfall.
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“That vine wasn’t as strong as I’d anticipated! It all taught me the simple lesson: don’t be an idiot and always be grateful for life.”
Bear also admitted in his new book Never Give Up that he knows time is not on his side as he nears 50.
He added: “One factor becoming ever clearer is that, however good we try and make our TV shows, they will always be limited in the number of episodes we can produce and the ever-increasing odds in terms of danger.
“I will get older and the odds of injury will increase.”
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It comes after the TV daredevil recently admitted that he regrets killing animals “in the name of survival” in his early television shows.
He has faced accusations of cruelty for slaughtering creatures including crocodiles, pigs and turkeys on his show The Island.
The TV star has revealed too many animals were killed in the early days of his hit Channel 4 programme.
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He told BBC Radio 4: |I think in terms of survival and food, definitely in the early days we were killing way too many snakes and stuff like that in the same of survival.
“I’ve moved so far away from that nowadays. It’s always about finding carcasses, bugs and grubs. If you look at great survivors historically they were always foragers.
“You go after the big game and you take too much risk and you burn too much energy”.
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The Island has previously faced heavy criticism from both viewers and animal welfare groups.
During a celebrity spin-off of the show, Made in Chelsea star Ollie Locke jumped on the back of a crocodile before stabbing it through the back of the neck.
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