How often do you travel?
I seem to always be on a plane going somewhere. I try to embrace it and treat it as calm time before the storms.
I've been filming in some pretty varied terrain this year - the Alps, Kenya, Bulgaria, the Pyrenees, Canary Islands and Panama.
The best escape was with the family, spending some downtime at sea just us and the boat off the Exuma Islands, southeast of Nassau in the Bahamas.Your earliest memory of travelling abroad?
Walt Disney World with my family aged six. It's the place kids dream of, meeting the Disney characters and a magical place to be absorbed in as a child. I remember itching to get on those big hair-raising rides.
Best holiday ever?
Skiing-paragliding trips to the Alps. We base ourselves there as a family for the winter months. We love the mountain lifestyle, access to back-country skiing and the amazing paragliding terrain.
Most hair-raising travel experience?
Somewhere between the Amazon, the Sahara and the Arctic - all such unforgiving and challenging environments that have, in turn, taken me to the edge.Favourite hotel?
Felin Fach B&Bs in Wales and Cornwall. Of course, there's another kind of hotel we used in scouting called a tent. Or, even better, a tarp and hammock, where you can sleep out under the stars.
One of the great joys of my job is that I get to spend a lot of time outdoors. Whether this is in the Arctic, desert or jungle, or just on the deck of my houseboat with my children, I always find something special and new when I sleep out in the open. I feel not only energised, but also get a powerful sense of belonging - as if this is where we should really be.
Most adventurous destination?It's a toss-up between the summit of Everest and the 22nd World Scout Jamboree in Sweden.
Summiting Everest in May 1998 was a life-changing adventure.
I had dreamt of climbing it since I was eight when my late father gave me a poster of the mountain for my bedroom wall.
To have achieved it while he was alive was special.
The summit is extraordinary - small, like a coffee table. Reaching it changed me in so many ways, giving me a gratitude for life that lasts to this day.
Several times I should have died up there.
In 2011, I joined 30,000 scouts for the adventure of a lifetime. We built a "city" of tents in the wilds of Sweden.In the past, scouts have also joined us on the island - the experience of helping them learn to abseil, cooking in the open and sharing stories is special.
There is an incredible bond between young people when you get them together in the wild.Most relaxing destination?
Our small private island off the coast of Wales. It's where I love to spend time with my family and it reminds me of all that really matters in life. We have no mains electricity or water and run everything off-grid.Favourite meal abroad?
Salmon cooked over a campfire with President Obama in Alaska - this was a special moment for me.
I also have a recipe for Everest stew. It was -20°C outside, so you'd just leave a leg outside the tent and it would freeze. It wasn't a bad dish actually - a bit sinewy at times, and it can be recreated with any meat that's a little gamey. I once added nettles, which were pretty good.Favourite place for a drink?
The Rum Doodle on Bhupi Road, Kathmandu. I had well-earned free drinks there back in 1998 having climbed Everest and trying to make sense of all that had happened up there.
The iconic little bar was established in 1980 and it's well known to climbers and backpackers from all over the world.
The wooden boxes behind the bar hold the signatures of hundreds of Everest summiteers, including Sir Edmund Hillary, so it's a pretty cool spot.Probably raw goat's testicles. They didn't exactly melt in the mouth and I threw up immediately after.
I have thrown up a few times, and the camera keeps rolling, which I like. I grew up with these survival shows that were always quite slick, always very premeditated and considered, and they always sounded quite boring.
Life is not like that, and survival sure as hell isn't - it's messy, so I don't mind it when things go wrong.
Favourite airline?
Always British Airways.Best piece of travel advice?
Pack a sense of humour and embrace the unexpected.
If you're going camping, I have a few good tricks but the key is to have a set of spare clothes that are well waterproofed and that you make sure you keep dry. That means taking off wet gear at night, sleeping in the dry set, then getting back into the wet gear in the morning. That's the painful bit but it's the important bit. Otherwise very quickly you end up with two wet sets - and then it is all pain.
What do you hate about holidays?
Airport security queues.Where next?
We have just finished filming for the summer after many months of back-to-back shoots for Running Wild with Bear Grylls season four for NBC and also for ITV, so it's off to our little island in North Wales...