Bear Grylls

Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls OBE (born 7

June 1974) is a British adventurer, writer,
television presenter and businessman.
Grylls first drew attention after embarking
on a number of adventures, and then
became widely known for his television
series Man vs. Wild (2006–2011). 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. In July 2009,
Grylls was appointed the youngest-ever
Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and
Overseas Territories at age 35,[1] a post he
has held for a second term since 2015.
 Bear Grylls
OBE

Grylls at a meeting with Coventry Scouts

groups in 2012

Born Edward Michael Grylls

7 June 1974
London, England

Nationality British, Irish

Education Eton College

Alma mater University of the West
of England, Bristol
Birkbeck College
Occupation Adventurer
Author
Motivational speaker
Television presenter

Spouse(s) Shara Cannings

Knight
(m. 2000)

Children 3

Relatives Sir Michael Grylls

(father)

Website beargrylls.com

Personal life
Edward Michael Grylls was born in London
on 7 June 1974.[2] From a family with
strong cricketing background, his
grandfather Neville Ford and great-great-
grandfather William Augustus Ford, were
both first-class cricketers. He grew up in
Donaghadee, Northern Ireland until the age
of four, when his family moved to
Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.[3][4]

He is the son of Conservative politician Sir

Michael Grylls and his wife Sarah "Sally"
(née Ford).[5] Grylls has one sibling, an
elder sister, Lara Fawcett, who gave him
the nickname 'Bear' when he was a week
old.[6]
From an early age, he learned to climb and
sail with his father, who was a member of
the prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron. As
a teenager, he learned to skydive and
earned a second dan black belt in
Shotokan karate.[7] He speaks English,
Spanish, and French.[8] He is an Anglican,[9]
and has described his Christian faith as
the "backbone" in his life.[10]

Grylls married Shara Cannings Knight in

2000.[11] They have three sons named
Jesse (born 2003), Marmaduke (born
2006) and Huckleberry (born 2009).[12][13]
In August 2015, Grylls left his 11-year-old
son Jesse 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. Jesse was unharmed, though
the RNLI later criticized him for the stunt,
saying its crew "had not appreciated" that
a child would be involved.[14]

Education
Grylls was educated at Eaton House,
Ludgrove School and Eton College, where
he helped start its first mountaineering
club.[15] He studied Spanish and German
at the University of the West of England,
Bristol[16] and at Birkbeck College,[17]
where he graduated with a 2:2 bachelor's
degree, obtained part-time, in Hispanic
studies in 2002.[18][19]

Military service
After leaving school, Grylls briefly hiked in
the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and
West Bengal.[20] From 1994–1997, he
served in the Territorial Army with 21 SAS
as a trooper trained in unarmed combat,
desert and winter warfare, survival,
climbing, parachuting, and explosives.
Becoming a survival instructor, he was
twice posted to North Africa. His time in
the SAS ended as the result of a free fall
parachuting accident the year before in
Kenya,[21] when his parachute failed to
open, breaking three vertebrae.[22]

In 2004, Grylls was awarded the honorary

rank of lieutenant commander in the Royal
Naval Reserve;[23] and in 2013 he was
awarded the honorary rank of lieutenant
colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve.[24]

Expeditions

Everest
On 16 May 1998, 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.[25] At 23, he was at
the time among the youngest people to
have achieved this feat. 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.[26] The record has since
been surpassed by Jake Meyer and then
Rob Gauntlett who summitted at age 19.
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".[27]

Circumnavigation of the UK

In 2000, Grylls led the team to

circumnavigate the British Isles on jet
skis,[23] taking about 30 days, to raise
money for the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution (RNLI). 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.[25]
Crossing the North Atlantic

In 2003, he led a team of five, including his

childhood friend, SAS colleague, and
Mount Everest climbing partner Mick
Crosthwaite, on an unassisted crossing of
the north Atlantic Ocean, in an open rigid
inflatable boat. Grylls and his team
traveled in an eleven-metre-long boat and
encountered force 8 gale winds with
waves breaking over the boat while
passing through icebergs in their journey
from Halifax, Nova Scotia to John o'
Groats, Scotland.[28]

Dinner party at altitude

In 2005, alongside the balloonist and
mountaineer David Hempleman-Adams
and Lieutenant Commander Alan Veal,
leader of the Royal Navy Freefall
Parachute Display Team, Grylls created a
world record for the highest open-air
formal dinner party, which they did under a
hot-air balloon at 7,600 metres (25,000 ft),
dressed in full mess dress and oxygen
masks.[29] To train for the event, he made
over 200 parachute jumps.[30] This event
was in aid of The Duke of Edinburgh's
Award and The Prince's Trust.[31]

Paramotoring over the Himalayas

In 2007, Grylls embarked on a record-
setting Parajet paramotor in Himalayas
near Mount Everest. He took off from
4,400 metres (14,500 ft), 8 miles (13 km)
south of the mountain. Grylls reported
looking down on the summit during his
ascent and coping with temperatures of
−60 °C (−76 °F). He endured dangerously
low oxygen levels and eventually reached
9,000 metres (29,500 ft), almost 3,000
metres (10,000 ft) higher than the previous
record of 6,102 metres (20,019 ft). The
feat was filmed for Discovery Channel
worldwide as well as Channel 4 in the
UK.[32] While Grylls initially planned to
cross over Everest itself, the permit was
only to fly to the south of Everest, and he
did not traverse Everest out of risk of
violating Chinese airspace.[33]

Journey Antarctica 2008

In 2008, Grylls led a team of four to climb

one of the most remote unclimbed peaks
in the world in Antarctica, to raise funds
for children's charity Global Angels and
promote the use of alternative energies.
During this mission the team also aimed to
explore the coast of Antarctica by
inflatable boat and jetski, part powered by
bioethanol, and then to travel across some
of the vast ice desert by wind-powered
kite-ski and electric powered paramotor.
However, the expedition was cut short
after Grylls suffered a broken shoulder
while kite skiing across a stretch of ice.
Travelling at speeds up to 50 km/h
(30 mph), a ski caught on the ice,
launching him in the air and breaking his
shoulder when he came down. He had to
be medically evacuated.[34]

Longest indoor freefall

Grylls, along with the double amputee Al

Hodgson and the Scotsman Freddy
MacDonald, set a Guinness world record in
2008 for the longest continuous indoor
freefall. The previous record was 1 hour 36
minutes by a US team. Grylls, Hodgson,
and MacDonald, using a vertical wind
tunnel in Milton Keynes, broke the record
by a few seconds. The attempt was in
support of the charity Global
Angels.[35][36][37]

Northwest Passage expedition

In September 2010, Grylls led a team of

five to take an ice-breaking rigid-inflatable
boat (RIB) through 5,700 nautical miles
(10,600 km) of the ice-strewn Northwest
Passage. The expedition intended to raise
awareness of the effects of global
warming and to raise money for children's
charity Global Angels.[38][39]

Career

Books

Grylls' first book, Facing Up (UK)/The Kid

Who Climbed Everest (US), described his
expedition and achievements climbing to
the summit of Mount Everest. His second
was Facing the Frozen Ocean. His third
book Born Survivor: Bear Grylls was written
to accompany the TV series of the same
name. He also wrote an extreme guide to
outdoor pursuits, titled Bear Grylls Outdoor
Adventures.[40]

In 2012, Grylls released his autobiography,

Mud, Sweat and Tears: The
Autobiography,[41] followed by A Survival
Guide for Life in late 2012 and True Grit in
2013.[42]

Grylls also wrote the Mission Survival

series of children's adventure survival
books titled: Mission Survival: Gold of the
Gods, Mission Survival: Way of the Wolf,
Mission Survival: Sands of the Scorpion,
Mission Survival: Tracks of the Tiger and
Mission Survival: Claws of the Crocodile. He
has written two thriller novels based
around his character Will Jaeger; Ghost
Flight released in 2015[43] and Burning
Angels in 2016.[44]

In 2019, Grylls published a Christian

devotional titled Soul Fuel.[45]

Television

Grylls entered television work with an

appearance in an advertisement for Sure
deodorant, featuring his ascent of Mount
Everest. Grylls was also used by the UK
Ministry of Defence to head the Army's
anti-drugs TV campaign, and featured in
the first ever major advertising campaign
for Harrods. Grylls has been a guest on
numerous talk shows including Friday
Night with Jonathan Ross, The Oprah
Winfrey Show, Late Night with Conan
O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,
Attack of the Show!, Late Show with David
Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Harry
Hill's TV Burp. Grylls recorded two
advertisements for Post's Trail Mix Crunch
Cereal, which aired in the US from January
2009. He also appeared as a
"distinguished instructor" in Dos Equis'
Most Interesting Academy in a webisode
named "Survival in the Modern Era". He
appeared in a five-part web series that
demonstrates urban survival techniques
and features Grylls going from bush to
bash. He also has marketed the Alpha
Course, a course on the basics of the
Christian faith. In 2013, Grylls appeared in
an airline safety video for Air New Zealand
entitled Bear Essentials of Safety, filmed
against the backdrop of the Routeburn
Track on the southern tip of New Zealand's
South Island.[46] In 2014, Grylls appeared
on Piers Morgan's Life Stories.

Escape to the Legion

Grylls filmed a four-part TV show in 2005,

called Escape to the Legion, which
followed Grylls and eleven other "recruits"
as they took part in a shortened re-
creation of the French Foreign Legion's
basic desert training in the Sahara. The
show was first broadcast in the UK on
Channel 4,[47] and in the US on the Military
Channel.[48]

Born Survivor/Man vs. Wild

Bear Grylls in front of an Alaska Air National Guard,

210th Rescue Squadron HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter
210th Rescue Squadron HH 60 Pave Hawk helicopter
before heading out to Spencer Glacier to film Man vs.
Wild (Born Survivor)

Grylls hosts a series titled Born Survivor:

Bear Grylls for the British Channel 4 and
broadcast as Man vs. Wild in Australia,
New Zealand, Canada, India, and the
United States, and as Ultimate Survival on
the Discovery Channel in Europe, Asia, and
Africa. The series features Grylls dropped
into inhospitable places, showing viewers
how to survive. Man vs. Wild debuted in
2006, and its success led it to lasting
seven seasons over five years.
The show has featured stunts including
Grylls climbing cliffs, parachuting from
helicopters, balloons, and planes,
paragliding, ice climbing, running through
a forest fire, wading rapids, eating snakes,
wrapping his urine-soaked T-shirt around
his head to help stave off the desert heat,
drinking urine saved in a rattlesnake skin,
drinking fecal liquid from elephant dung,
eating deer droppings, wrestling alligators,
field dressing a camel carcass and
drinking water from it, eating various
"creepy crawlies" [insects], using the
corpse of a sheep as a sleeping bag and
flotation device, free climbing waterfalls
and using a bird guano/water enema for
hydration.[49][50]

The show caused controversy after a

programme consultant revealed that Grylls
actually stayed in a hotel on some nights –
including an episode in Hawaii in which
Grylls was ostensibly stranded on a
deserted island – and that certain scenes
were staged for him.[51] Grylls
subsequently apologized to viewers who
might have felt misled.[51]

In March 2012, the Discovery Channel

dropped Grylls from its lineup because of
a contractual dispute,[52][53] although he
has subsequently worked with them again.

In August 2019, Bear Grylls appeared with

Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in a
special episode shot in the India's Jim
Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand. The
episode was showcased in more than 180
countries across the world on the
Discovery, Inc. network.[54]

Worst Case Scenario

In 2010, Grylls came out with a new

project titled Worst-Case Scenario which
aired on Discovery in the US. It is based on
the popular books of the same name.[55]
Twelve episodes were produced before the
show was cancelled.[56]

Bear's Wild Weekend

In 2011, he made two specials under the

title Bear’s Wild Weekend for Channel 4 in
the UK which was broadcast over the
Christmas holiday that year. Each special
featured Grylls taking either Jonathan
Ross or Miranda Hart on short two-day
adventures; Ross to rainforest in the
Canary Islands, Hart to the Swiss Alps.[57]
These screened in the US under the title
Bear Grylls' Wild Adventure. A third episode
with Stephen Fry, this time in the Dolomite
mountains of South Tyrol, screened in late
2013.[58]

In 2014, two further episodes were aired in

the UK under the title Wild Weekends. The
first of these was the 2011 special of Man
vs. Wild featuring Jake Gyllenhaal,[59] and
the second was the Running Wild episode
featuring Ben Stiller.[60]

Get Out Alive

Grylls hosted Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls,

a reality competition series filmed in New
Zealand, which premiered on NBC on 8
July 2013.[61][62]
Escape from Hell

In Bear Grylls: Escape from Hell, he reveals

the true life stories of ordinary people
trapped in extraordinary situations of
survival. The six-episode series premiered
on the Discovery Channel in the UK on 4
October 2013, and in the US on 11
November 2013.[63]

The Island

He presented The Island with Bear Grylls,

first shown on Channel 4 on 5 May 2014.
An American version of the show was also
made and it premiered on 25 May 2015 on
NBC.[64]
Running Wild with Bear Grylls

In this adventure TV series from NBC,

which premiered on 28 July 2014, Grylls
takes celebrities on a two-day trip in the
wilderness. The celebrities who took part
in Season 1 are Zac Efron, Ben Stiller,
Tamron Hall, Deion Sanders, Channing
Tatum, and Tom Arnold.[65][66] Celebrities
who took part in Season 2 were Kate
Winslet, Kate Hudson, Drew Brees, Jesse
Tyler Ferguson, Ed Helms, Michelle
Rodriguez, James Marsden, Michael B.
Jordan, and President Barack Obama.[67]

Mission Survive
A Gerber Bear Grylls branded survival knife.

In 2015, he began presenting the six-part

ITV series Bear Grylls: Mission Survive
which features eight celebrities on a
twelve-day survival mission. The series
began airing on 20 February 2015.[68]
Mission Survive returned for a second
series in 2016.[69]

Bear Grylls Survival School

In 2016, he presented a CITV series called
Bear Grylls Survival School. Filming started
in August 2015. The series began airing on
10 January 2016.[70][71] A second series
was scheduled to begin on 7 January
2017.

Survivor Games

In summer 2015, China's Dragon TV

ordered a Grylls-fronted adventure series
titled Survivor Games (Chinese: 跟着⻉尔去
冒险). The series featured Grylls and eight
Chinese celebrities and premiered on
Dragon TV on 16 October 2015.[72]

Bear's Mission
In 2018, ITV began airing a new series
similar to the USA series "Running Wild
with Bear Grylls" called "Bear's Mission
with...". This show focuses on one British
celebrity taking an overnight adventure
with Bear each episode. The series
premiered on ITV on early 2018.[73]

You vs. Wild

Later, Grylls went on to release an

interactive series on streaming service
Netflix.

World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji

Grylls presented the revival of the Eco-
Challenge series, which is titled World's
Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji. It
involved teams from around the world
competing in an adventure race, which
took place in Fiji. The series premiered on
Amazon Prime Video on 14 August
2020.[74]

Motivational speaking

Outside of TV, Grylls works as a

motivational speaker, giving speeches
worldwide to corporations, churches,
schools, and other organisations.[25][53]
Positions in Scouting

Designation of Chief Ambassador of

World Scouting

On 16 November 2018, The World

Organization of the Scout Movement
announced the appointment of Bear Grylls
as its first Chief Ambassador.[75] Upon his
appointment, he said "I’m very proud and
humbled to take on this new role as Chief
Ambassador of World Scouting and
continue to promote the great work
Scouting is doing across the globe.
Scouting is a worldwide force for good
that unites young people with positive
values and an adventurous spirit. We aim
to make a difference in our communities,
help young people learn new skills, and be
kind to all people."[75]

Bear has long been a supporter of

Scouting around the world often visiting
Scout groups on his filming missions and
appeared at the 24th World Scout
Jamboree in his role as Chief
Ambassador[76]

Term as Chief Scout of the Scout

Association
On 17 May 2009, The Scout Association
announced Grylls would be appointed
Chief Scout following the end of Peter
Duncan's five-year term in July 2009.[77] He
was officially made Chief Scout at Gilwell
24 on 11 July 2009 in a handover event
featuring Peter Duncan in front of a crowd
of over 3,000 Explorer Scouts. He is the
tenth person to hold the position and the
youngest Chief Scout since the role was
created for Robert Baden-Powell in
1920.[1][78]

On 9 April 2015, The Scout Association

announced that Grylls would continue as
Chief Scout until 2018. Grylls wrote, "I am
so proud that the largest youth movement
on the planet has asked me to continue in
my role as UK Chief Scout."[79]

On 5 June 2015, Grylls, in an interview with

The Telegraph, praised the challenge of
being Britain's youngest Chief Scout,
saying "Scouting humbles me every
day".[80]

Be Military Fit
Bear Grylls Ventures and NM Capital
purchased British Military Fitness in
September 2018 and re-branded as "Be
Military Fit with Bear Grylls", to retain the
existing acronym BMF. The company runs
outdoor group fitness classes in 140
public parks and outdoor spaces across
the United Kingdom. The classes are led
by former or serving members of the
British Armed Forces with recognised
fitness training qualifications. It is Europe's
largest outdoor fitness
company.[81][82][83][84]

Charity and politics

Grylls is an ambassador for The Prince's
Trust, an organisation which provides
training, financial, and practical support to
young people in the United Kingdom.[13]
Global Angels, a UK charity which seeks to
aid children around the world, were the
beneficiaries of his 2007 accomplishment
of taking a powered para-glider higher
than Mount Everest. Grylls' held the
highest ever dinner party at 7,600 metres
(25,000 ft) in aid of The Duke of
Edinburgh's Award Scheme, and launched
the 50th anniversary of the Awards. His
successful circumnavigation of Britain on
jet skis raised money for the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution.

Grylls' Everest climb was in aid of SSAFA

Forces Help, a British-based charitable
organisation set up to help former and
serving members of the British Armed
Forces and their families and dependents.
His 2003 Arctic expedition detailed in the
book Facing the Frozen Ocean was in aid of
The Prince's Trust. His 2005 attempt to
para-motor over the Angel Falls was in aid
of the charity Hope and Homes for
Children.[85]

In August 2010, Grylls continued his fund-

raising work for Global Angels by
undertaking an expedition through the
Northwest Passage in a rigid inflatable
boat. Many of his expeditions also support
environmental causes such as his
Antarctica expedition and his
circumnavigation of Britain which tested a
pioneering new fuel made from rubbish. In
2011, Grylls was in New Zealand during
the February 2011 Christchurch
earthquake. Following the incident, he
appeared on New Zealand advertisements
encouraging people to donate money to
help rebuild the city.[86][87]

Grylls is also an ambassador for Care for

Children, an organisation that partners
with governments in Asia to help create a
positive alternative to institutional care
through local family-based care for
disadvantaged children.[88]
Grylls said he spoke "from the heart" in
backing "Remain" in the 2016 referendum.
"At such a time for the UK to retreat, run
and cut ourselves loose from Europe,
when there are so many challenges on our
doorstep, to me just doesn't feel either
courageous or kind," he said. "Europe has
many flaws, but I also believe the way to
help resolve many of those tough issues is
from within... I have never been a good
quitter and I am so proud of the UK and
our values: tolerance, kindness, respect,
courage and resilience. This is why I want
us to stay together and Remain in
Europe."[89] In January 2020, he announced
that he had asserted his right to Irish
citizenship and had obtained an Irish
passport.[90]

Grylls was appointed Officer of the Order

of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019
Birthday Honours for services to young
people, the media and charity.[91]

See also
 Scouting portal
 United Kingdom portal

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