![]() ![]() He also rowed naked in a homemade bathtub along the Thames to raise funds for a friend who lost his legs in a climbing accident. In 2000, Grylls led the team to circumnavigate the British Isles on jet skis, taking about 30 days, to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). To prepare for climbing at such high altitudes in the Himalayas, in 1997, Grylls became the youngest Briton to climb Ama Dablam, a peak once described by Sir Edmund Hillary as "unclimbable", although now the third most popular in the Himalayas for permitted expeditions. ![]() ![]() The record has since been surpassed by Jake Meyer and then Rob Gauntlett who summitted at age 19. There is some dispute over whether he was the youngest Briton to have done so, as he was preceded by James Allen, a climber holding dual Australian and British citizenship, who reached the summit in 1995 at age 22. ![]() At 23, he was at the time among the youngest people to have achieved this feat. On, Grylls achieved his childhood dream of climbing to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, 18 months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident. Then in 2013 he was awarded the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve, and promoted to Honorary Colonel in June 2021. In 2004, Grylls was awarded the honorary rank of lieutenant commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. His time in the SAS ended as the result of a free fall parachuting accident in Kenya in 1996 his parachute failed to open, causing him to break three vertebrae. From 1994–1997, he served in the Territorial Army with 21 SAS as a trooper. Military serviceĪfter leaving school, Grylls briefly hiked in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal. He studied Spanish and German at the University of the West of England, Bristol and at Birkbeck College, where he graduated with a 2:2 bachelor's degree, obtained part-time, in Hispanic studies in 2002. Grylls was educated at Eaton House, Ludgrove School and Eton College, where he helped start its first mountaineering club. Grylls used to be a vegan but now consumes a diet predominant in animal-based foods, fruits and honey. The child was unharmed, though the RNLI later criticised Grylls for the stunt, saying its crew "had not appreciated" that a child would be involved. In August 2015, Grylls left his 11-year-old son on Saint Tudwal's Island along the North Wales coast, as the tide approached, leaving him to be rescued by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) as part of their weekly practice missions. Grylls married Shara Cannings Knight in 2000. He's all around us, if we're just still enough to listen." He is an Anglican, and has described his Christian faith as the "backbone" in his life: "You can't keep God out. As a teenager, he learned to skydive and earned a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate. įrom an early age, he learned to climb and sail with his father, who was a member of the prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron. Grylls has one sibling, an elder sister, Lara Fawcett, who gave him the nickname 'Bear' when he was a week old. He is the son of Conservative politician Sir Michael Grylls and his wife Sarah "Sally" ( née Ford). He grew up in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, until the age of four, when his family moved to Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. His family has a strong cricketing background, his grandfather Neville Ford and great-great-grandfather William Augustus Ford having both been first-class cricketers. Grylls was born in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland on 7 June 1974. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed as The Scout Association’s youngest-ever Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories at age 35, a post he has held for a second term since 2015. He is also involved in a number of wilderness survival television series in the UK and US, such as Running Wild with Bear Grylls and The Island with Bear Grylls. He first drew attention after embarking on a number of adventures, and then became widely known for his television series Man vs. Edward Michael " Bear" Grylls OBE ( / ˈ ɡ r ɪ l z/ born 7 June 1974) is a British adventurer, writer, television presenter and businessman. ![]()
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