Lessons From the Edge: Inspirational Tales of Surviving, Thriving and Extreme Adventure

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Aldo Kane is an adventurer and World Record Holder with over 20 years' experience working in some of the most extreme, remote and inhospitable places on the planet; Lessons From The Edge will show readers that with the right mindset, you can get through anything life throws at you. Inspiring survival stories from Aldo Kane, the man behind Tom Hardy, Bear Grylls and Steve Backshall expeditions.

But because I’m freelance and a go-to guy for these projects for the last ten years, I’ve bounced from project to project. Aldo now runs Vertical Planet, a technical safety risk management company providing services for some of the world's largest TV and film productions. Bumbling through life without making any decisions, I feel it’s much riskier than people doing things people think are risky.

You’re back into the mixing pot of humanity who don’t care or know what you’ve done in the military and you feel lost. Cheerfulness in the face of adversity is a very strong message that everybody should occasionally reflect on. He says: “I suppose a lot of people who are in TV do one job and that’s them and they do their six projects for the year.

Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. If you do receive an ATOL Certificate but all the parts of your trip are not listed on it, those parts will not be ATOL protected. Aldo has been held at gunpoint, Charged by a black Rhino, Abseiled into an active volcano, escaped Ebola, rowed across the Atlantic and dived on Captain Kidd’s pirate ship, and that’s just the last year or two. Like going out and climbing a mountain at the weekend isn’t actually that risky when you put all the mitigations into place.Leaving the Royal Marines as an expert in Jungles, Deserts, Mountains and the Arctic, it wasn't long before Aldo started to carve a new career for himself in the TV and Film industry. Aldo is a firm believer that with the right head game, however hard it feels, you can get through anything life throws at you. Aldo — who is also doing a book tour which stops at Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms today — says: “When I go away and I’m working with famous people they love the hardship of it but also the freedom it gives them to not have the trappings of being a celebrity. It’s about knowing that if you control your fear and your thoughts you can navigate any kind of danger.

While completing active service in countries from Northern Ireland to the Middle East, he became a survival expert across the different environments he found himself in.Aldo joined the Royal Marine Commandos at the age of sixteen and went on to become one of the youngest Elite Commando Reconnaissance Snipers in the UK armed forces. If you have watched any adventure TV in the last ten years, then you have seen his work, either behind or in front of the camera.