When I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for charity. It was horrendous.
How close have you come to dying?
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A plane to San Francisco, 25 years ago. There was a bang and I looked out of the window and saw flames coming out of one of the engines. We zoomed down to the airport below.
When I got hit by a car in my home town.
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