When I was a kid, travelling from Ethiopia to the UK, the plane door opened, the oxygen masks came down and the plane did an emergency landing in Egypt.
How close have you come to death?
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Being charged by a white rhino on a walking safari. It came running towards us and I froze, which is the right thing to do. If it had hit us, it would have been goodnight.
I had quite a chequered childhood. I had a knife put to my throat once when I was a kid, which was very scary.
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