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

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The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. He also hosts the reality show The Bridge alongside AJ Odudu, guiding the teams across tests of physical ability, mental skill, and teamwork. A Fellow at the Royal Geographic Society, he shares his unique experiences from some of the world’s most dangerous, extreme, and remote locations.

He shares stories of abseiling into erupting volcanoes and being charged by a rhino and the lessons he learnt from his adventures. In his debut book, Lessons From The Edge, Aldo will inspire readers with his jaw-dropping stories and show them how to survive and thrive through sheer strength of mind and sharp decision-making. But despite rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous and experiencing life’s extremes, he cares most about giving people the courage to take on the things they’re afraid to tackle. This saw Aldo lead a prominent American Scientist deep inside one of Africa’s most dangerous volcanoes whilst it was erupting.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 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. Trained Royal Marines Sniper, world record breaker and extreme TV adventurer, Aldo Kane, is known for his ability to navigate and lead through challenging and pressured environments. Cheerfulness in the face of adversity is a very strong message that everybody should occasionally reflect on. We’ve been taking groups to incredible places for almost 50 years, which is why we’re excited to join forces with Aldo.

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.Aldo joined the Royal Marine Commandos at the age of 16 and became one of the youngest Snipers in the UK armed forces. Join Aldo live in conversation, as he shares jaw-dropping stories from his life and career – whether it be abseiling into an erupting volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rowing the Atlantic, getting locked in a bunker for 10 days with zero daylight, or being held at gunpoint. Watch our short film where Aldo sets foot on the Via Dinarica trail in Bosnia to hike with award-winning Exodus guide Samer Hajrik and learn about why this is so much more than just a trail. 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. But before the battle-hardened Scot found fame for his telly escapades, he often felt like a failure after leaving behind his role as a Royal Marines sniper in 2003.

In his debut audiobook, Lessons from the Edge, Aldo will inspire listeners with his jaw-dropping stories and show them how to survive and thrive through sheer strength of mind and sharp decision-making. The book will also reveal how the author was able to cope with suddenly feeling worthless, how he overcame doors slamming in his face, how he came to realise that you can’t wait for things to happen and instead how he rediscovered his identity and found purpose and belonging. There’s a lot of people who could have done the job but with the line of work I’m in with leading expeditions, he found out about me through the illegal tiger trade project I did. Whelan said: "Aldo’s experiences are truly astonishing – but what also shines through the manuscript is his strength of character, his fighting spirit and his unshakeable determination to improve his life – which is what has got him to where he is now, along with his ability to harness his emotions to his advantage and never give up, even when the world wasn’t going his way.

Trained Royal Marines Sniper, world record breaker and extreme TV adventurer Aldo Kane is known for his ability to navigate and lead through challenging and pressured environments, whether it be abseiling into an erupting volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rowing the Atlantic, getting locked in a bunker for 10 days with zero daylight, leading Steve Backshall into the jungle or being held at gunpoint. In his debut book, Lessons From The Edge, Aldo aims to inspire readers with his "jaw-dropping" stories and show them how to survive and thrive through sheer strength of mind and sharp decision-making, says the publisher.