None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.

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• Robert Falcon Scott:

  Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my compani

• John Wesley Powell:

  We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know

• Bear Grylls:

  Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

• James Cook:

  Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it

• Reinhold Messner:

  Ninety per cent of the tourists climbing big mountains are on 10 mountains - and one million mounta

• Richard Francis Burton:

  Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

• Henry Morton Stanley:

  The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

• Meriwether Lewis:

  A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained

• Thor Heyerdahl:

  Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

• Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey:

  As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my p