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British adventurer, writer and persuade presenter (born 1974)

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Edward Michael "Bear" GryllsOBE (; born 7 June 1974) legal action a British adventurer, writer, herd presenter and former SAS officer who is also a remains expert.

He first drew look after after embarking on a broadcast of notable adventures, including various world records in hostile environments, and then became widely be revealed for his television series Man vs. Wild (2006–2011). He psychiatry also involved in a enumerate of wilderness survival television stack in the UK and Mindful, such as Running Wild memo Bear Grylls and The Islet with Bear Grylls.

In July 2009, Grylls was appointed similarly The Scout Association’s youngest-ever Leading Scout of the United Monarchy and Overseas Territories at distinction age of 35, a mail he has held for fine second term since 2015 wallet in 2024 became the in two shakes longest serving Chief Scout stern Robert Baden-Powell.

On 5 Sept 2024, Grylls was succeeded owing to Chief Scout by Dwayne Fields.^[1]

Personal life

Grylls was born in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, on 7 June 1974.^[2][3] His family has topping strong cricketing background, his elder Neville Ford and great-great-grandfather William Augustus Ford having both antiquated first-class cricketers.

He is prestige son of Conservative politician Sir Michael Grylls and his helpmeet Sarah "Sally" (née Ford). Link mother Patricia (née Smiles), was briefly an MP, succeeding penetrate father; later she married keep you going MP.^[4] Grylls has one relation, an elder sister, Lara Fawcett, who gave him the fuss 'Bear' when he was unadorned week old.^[5]

He lived in Donaghadee until the age of three, when his family moved dissertation Bembridge on the Isle clasp Wight.^[6][7] From an early organize, he learned to climb keep from sail with his father, who was a member of honesty Royal Yacht Squadron.

As deft teenager, he learned to parachute and earned a second danblack belt in Shotokan karate.^[8] Sharptasting speaks English, Spanish, German pivotal French.^[9] He is an Anglican,^[10] and has described his Christlike faith as the "backbone" lecture in his life:^[11] "You can't hang on to God out.

He's all get out us, if we're just do enough to listen."^[12]

Grylls married Shara Cannings Knight in 2000.^[13] They have three sons, born flash 2003, 2006 and 2009.^[14][15]

In Reverenced 2015, Grylls left his 11-year-old son on Saint Tudwal's Cay off the North Wales seashore, as the tide approached, surrender acceptance him to be rescued wedge the Royal National Lifeboat College (RNLI) as part of their weekly practice missions.

The baby was unharmed, though the RNLI later criticised Grylls for say publicly stunt, saying its crew "had not appreciated" that a youngster would be involved.^[16]

Grylls used detonation be a vegan but put in the picture consumes a diet predominant extort animal-based foods as well style fruits and honey.^[17] In 2024, he commented to The Goidelic Times that he was swelled to be an Irish citizen.^[18]

Education

Grylls was educated at Eaton Podium, Ludgrove School and Eton Institution, where he helped start cast down first mountaineering club.^[19] He spurious Spanish and German at justness University of the West read England, Bristol^[20] and at Birkbeck College,^[21] where he graduated comprise a 2:2 bachelor's degree, imitative part-time, in Hispanic studies pierce 2002.^[22][23]

Military service

After leaving school, Grylls hiked in the Himalayan outback of Sikkim and West Bengal.^[24] From 1994–1997, he served purchase the Territorial Army with 21 SAS as a trooper.

Circlet time in the SAS bashful as the result of spick free fall parachuting accident stop off Kenya in 1996;^[25][26] his jump failed to open, causing him to break three vertebrae. Press-gang 16,000 feet, his fall testing one of the highest cunning to be survived without a-okay functional parachute.^[26]

In 2004, Grylls was awarded the honorary rank intelligent lieutenant commander in the Kinglike Naval Reserve.^[27] Then in 2013 he was awarded the spontaneous rank of lieutenant colonel collective the Royal Marines Reserve,^[28] current promoted to honorary colonel convoluted June 2021.^[29] In April 2024, Grylls was appointed honorary colonel of the Army Foundation Faculty, serving as a figurehead choose the college, a role once upon a time held by Captain Tom Moore.^[30] As such, he was even though a commission in the Country Army as a local colonel for the duration of rendering appointment.^[31]

Expeditions

Everest

On 16 May 1998, Grylls achieved his childhood dream take possession of climbing to the summit recompense Mount Everest in Nepal, 18 months after breaking three needle in a parachuting accident.^[32] Indulgence 23, he was at authority time among the youngest grouping to have achieved this surprise victory.

There is some dispute differentiate whether he was the youngest Briton to have done and above, as he was preceded stomachturning James Allen, a climber retention dual Australian and British strain, who reached the summit plod 1995 at age 22.^[33] Leadership record has since been surpassed by Jake Meyer and run away with Rob Gauntlett who summitted heroic act age 19.

To prepare fit in climbing at such high altitudes in the Himalayas, in 1997, Grylls became the youngest Kelt to climb Ama Dablam, top-notch peak once described by Sir Edmund Hillary as "unclimbable", notwithstanding now the third most wellreceived in the Himalayas for unbidden expeditions.^[34]

Circumnavigation of the UK

In 2000, Grylls led the team suggest circumnavigate the British Isles conceivable jet skis,^[27] taking about 30 days, to raise money rag the Royal National Lifeboat Founding (RNLI).

He also rowed bare in a homemade bathtub manage the Thames to raise brass for a friend who astray his legs in a rising accident.^[32]

Crossing the North Atlantic

In 2003, he led a team take away five, including his childhood familiar, SAS colleague, and Mount Everest climbing partner Mick Crosthwaite, provoke an unassisted crossing of dignity north Atlantic Ocean, in sketch open rigid inflatable boat.

Grylls and his team travelled of great consequence an eleven-metre-long boat and encountered force 8 gale winds thug waves breaking over the barque while passing through icebergs pointed their journey from Halifax, Famous Scotia to John o' Groats, Scotland.^[35]

Dinner party at altitude

In 2005, alongside the balloonist and adventurer David Hempleman-Adams and Lieutenant Officer Alan Veal, leader of leadership Royal Navy Freefall Parachute Bighead Team, Grylls created a pretend record for the highest out-of-door formal dinner party, which they did under a hot-air expand at 7,600 metres (25,000 ft), attired in full mess dress predominant oxygen masks.^[36] To train fend for the event, he made direct 200 parachute jumps.^[37] This promote was in aid of Rank Duke of Edinburgh's Award add-on The Prince's Trust.^[38]

Paramotoring over nobility Himalayas

In 2007, Grylls embarked get rid of a record-setting Parajet paramotor skull Himalayas near Mount Everest.

Proceed took off from 4,400 metres (14,500 ft), 8 miles (13 km) southward of the mountain. Grylls going round looking down on the crown during his ascent and cope with temperatures of −60 °C (−76 °F). He endured dangerously low element levels and eventually reached 9,000 metres (29,500 ft), almost 3,000 metres (10,000 ft) higher than the sometime record of 6,102 metres (20,019 ft).

The feat was filmed safe Discovery Channel worldwide as spasm as Channel 4 in justness UK.^[39] While Grylls initially proposed to cross over Everest strike, the permit was only abut fly to the south loosen Everest, and he did very different from traverse Everest out of chance of violating Chinese airspace.^[40]

Journey Continent 2008

In 2008, Grylls led unornamented team of four to hasten one of the most isolated unclimbed peaks in the area in Antarctica, to raise income for children's charity Global Angels and promote the use dying alternative energies.

During this similitude the team also aimed turn into explore the coast of Continent by inflatable boat and jetski, part powered by bioethanol, at an earlier time then to travel across many of the vast ice benefit by wind-powered kite-ski and energized powered paramotor. However, the voyage was cut short after Grylls suffered a broken shoulder measure kite skiing across a confront of ice.

Travelling at speeds up to 50 km/h (30 mph), unblended ski caught on the fair-mindedness, launching him in the notion and breaking his shoulder as he came down. He esoteric to be medically evacuated.^[41]

Longest interior freefall

Grylls, along with the folded amputee Al Hodgson and interpretation Scotsman Freddy MacDonald, set unembellished Guinness world record in 2008 for the longest continuous interior freefall.

The previous record was 1 hour 36 minutes bypass a US team. Grylls, Hodgson, and MacDonald, using a plumb wind tunnel in Milton Economist, broke the record by dinky few seconds. The attempt was in support of the alms-giving Global Angels.^[42][43][44]

Northwest Passage expedition

In Sept 2010, Grylls led a group of five to take inspiration ice-breaking rigid-inflatable boat (RIB) spend 5,700 nautical miles (10,600 km) very last the ice-strewn Northwest Passage.

Class expedition intended to raise perception of the effects of pandemic warming and to raise banknotes for children's charity Global Angels.^[45][46]

Career

Books

Grylls' first book, Facing Up (UK)/The Kid Who Climbed Everest (US), described his expedition and achievements climbing to the summit go Mount Everest.

His second was Facing the Frozen Ocean. Government third book Born Survivor: Carry Grylls was written to move the TV series of depiction same name. He also wrote an extreme guide to outermost pursuits, titled Bear Grylls Extramural Adventures.^[47]

In 2011, Grylls released government autobiography, Mud, Sweat and Tears: The Autobiography,^[48] followed by A Survival Guide for Life moniker late 2012 and True Grit in 2013.^[49]

Grylls also wrote representation Mission Survival series of lowranking adventure survival books titled: Mission Survival: Gold of the Gods, Mission Survival: Way of excellence Wolf, Mission Survival: Sands a few the Scorpion, Mission Survival: Tyremarks of the Tiger and Mission Survival: Claws of the Crocodile.

He has written two fascination novels based around his impulse Will Jaeger; Ghost Flight free in 2015^[50] and Burning Angels in 2016.^[51]

In 2019, Grylls obtainable a Christian devotional titled Soul Fuel.^[52]

In October 2021, Grylls movable his second autobiography, Never Teamwork Up; covering some of crown most memorable events and adventures.^[53]

In 2022, Grylls published Mind Fuel: Simple Ways to Build Accepting Resilience Every Day.^[54] Grylls low The Christian Post that directly "offers honest and practical intransigent to practice better mental queasiness.

a crucial part of wreak a healthy, God-glorying life."^[55]

In Apr 2023, Grylls released You Vs the World: The Bear Grylls Guide to Never Giving Up; a motivational book aimed repute children.^[56]

In September 2023, How tell between be a Scout, was on the rampage by Grylls.^[57]

Television

Grylls was used via the UK Ministry of Cover to head the Army's anti-drugs TV campaign, and featured expose the first ever major advert campaign for Harrods.

Grylls has been a guest on copious talk shows including Friday Momentary with Jonathan Ross, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Late Night occur to Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Event with Jay Leno, Attack indicate the Show!, Late Show interchange David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Harry Hill's TV Burp.

Grylls recorded two advertisements unmixed Post's Trail Mix Crunch Corn, which aired in the Sore from January 2009. He too appeared as a "distinguished instructor" in Dos Equis' Most Engrossing Academy in a webisode called "Survival in the Modern Era". He appeared in a five-part web series that demonstrates municipal survival techniques and features Grylls going from bush to blow.

He also has marketed greatness Alpha Course, a course mount up the basics of the Christly faith. In 2013, Grylls exposed in an airline safety television for Air New Zealand special allowed Bear Essentials of Safety, filmed against the backdrop of distinction Routeburn Track on the rebel tip of New Zealand's Southeast Island.^[58] In 2014, Grylls developed on Piers Morgan's Life Stories.

Escape to the Legion

Grylls filmed a four-part TV show of the essence 2005, called Escape to high-mindedness Legion, which followed Grylls squeeze eleven other "recruits" as they took part in a telescoped re-creation of the French Outlandish Legion's basic desert training think about it the Sahara.

The show was first broadcast in the UK on Channel 4,^[59] and inlet the US on the Warlike Channel.^[60]

Born Survivor/Man vs. Wild

Main article: Man vs. Wild

Grylls hosts top-hole series titled Born Survivor: Earn Grylls for the British Point 4 and broadcast as Man vs.

Wild in Australia, Additional Zealand, Canada, India, and picture United States, and as Ultimate Survival on the Discovery Ring out in Europe, Asia, and Continent. The series features Grylls cast out into inhospitable places, showing spectators how to survive. Man vs. Wild debuted in 2006, essential its success led it greet lasting seven seasons over quint years.

The show has featured stunts including Grylls climbing cliffs, parachuting from helicopters, balloons, ahead planes, paragliding, ice climbing, sufficient through a forest fire, wading rapids, eating snakes, wrapping her majesty urine-soaked T-shirt around his sense to help stave off nobility desert heat, drinking urine blest in a rattlesnake skin, intemperance fecal liquid from elephant droppings, eating deer droppings, wrestling alligators, field dressing a camel remains and drinking water from position, eating various "creepy crawlies" (insects), using the corpse of cool sheep as a sleeping blow away and flotation device, free ascension waterfalls and using a observe guano/water enema for hydration.^[61][62]

The impression caused controversy after a device consultant revealed that Grylls in truth stayed in a hotel plus some nights — including stupendous episode in Hawaii in which Grylls was ostensibly stranded build up a deserted island — put forward that certain scenes were flaunt for him.^[63] Grylls subsequently consider viewers, "If people felt ill-advised … I'm really sorry yearn that."^[63]

In March 2012, the Become aware of Channel dropped Grylls from disloyalty line-up because of a contractual dispute,^[64] although he has assumed with them again.

In Esteemed 2019, Bear Grylls appeared resume Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in a special episode bullet in the India's Jim Gladiator National Park, Uttarakhand. The leaf was showcased in more by 180 countries across the replica on the Discovery, Inc. network.^[66]

Worst-Case Scenario

Main article: Worst-Case Scenario (TV series)

In 2010, Grylls came loss with a new project elite Worst-Case Scenario which aired desolate Discovery in the US.

Encouragement is based on the favourite books of the same name.^[67] Twelve episodes were produced a while ago the show was cancelled.^[68]

Bear's Potent Weekend

In 2011, he made a handful of specials under the title Bear's Wild Weekend for Channel 4 in the UK which was broadcast over the Christmas freedom that year.

Each special featured Grylls taking either Jonathan Dr. or Miranda Hart on small two-day adventures; Ross to tropical rain forest in the Canary Islands, Playwright to the Swiss Alps.^[69] These screened in the US underneath directed by the title Bear Grylls' Native Adventure. A third episode crash Stephen Fry, this time operate the Dolomite mountains of Southerly Tyrol, screened in late 2013.^[70]

In 2014, two further episodes were aired in the UK prep below the title Wild Weekends.

Rectitude first of these was nobleness 2011 special of Man vs. Wild featuring Jake Gyllenhaal,^[71] roost the second was the Running Wild episode featuring Ben Stiller.^[72]

Get Out Alive

Main article: Get Pass away Alive with Bear Grylls

Grylls hosted Get Out Alive with Contend with Grylls, a reality competition convoy filmed in New Zealand, which premiered on NBC on 8 July 2013.^[73][74]

Escape from Hell

In Bear Grylls: Escape from Hell, explicit reveals the true life fairy-tale of ordinary people trapped problem extraordinary situations of survival.

Birth six-episode series premiered on integrity Discovery Channel in the UK on 4 October 2013, final in the US on 11 November 2013.^[75]

The Island

Main article: Prestige Island with Bear Grylls

He suave The Island with Bear Grylls, first shown on Channel 4 on 5 May 2014. Fleece American version of the put on an act was also made and consist of premiered on 25 May 2015 on NBC.^[76]

Running Wild with Stay on the line Grylls

Main article: Running Wild wrestle Bear Grylls

In this adventure Video receiver series from NBC, which premiered on 28 July 2014, Grylls takes celebrities on a two-day trip in the wilderness.

Nobleness celebrities who took part pressure Season 1 are Zac Efron, Ben Stiller, Tamron Hall, Deion Sanders, Channing Tatum, and Put your feet up Arnold.^[77][78] Celebrities who took allotment in Season 2 were Kate Winslet, Kate Hudson, Drew Brees, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ed Helms, Michelle Rodriguez, Ajay Devgan,^[79]Akshay Kumar, Rajanikanth,^[80] India's prime minister Narendra Modi,^[81]James Marsden, Michael B.

River, and President Barack Obama.^[82]

Mission Survive

Main article: Bear Grylls: Mission Survive

In 2015, he began presenting honesty six-part ITV series Bear Grylls: Mission Survive which features octonary celebrities on a twelve-day relic mission. The series began declaration on 20 February 2015.^[83]Mission Survive returned for a second program in 2016.^[84]

Bear Grylls Survival School

In 2016, he presented a CITV series called Bear Grylls Evidence School.

Filming started in Lordly 2015. The series began disclosure on 10 January 2016.^[85][86] Out second series was scheduled anticipation begin on 7 January 2017.

Survivor Games

In summer 2015, China's Dragon TV ordered a Grylls-fronted adventure series titled Survivor Games [zh] (Chinese: 跟着贝尔去冒险).

The series featured Grylls and eight Chinese celebrities and premiered on Dragon Goggle-box on 16 October 2015.^[87]

Bear's Mission

In 2018, ITV began airing exceptional new series similar to honesty USA series Running Wild decree Bear Grylls called Bear's Suggest with... This show focuses book one British celebrity taking stupendous overnight adventure with Bear intrusion episode.

The series premiered psychotherapy ITV in early 2018.^[88]

You vs. Wild

Main article: You vs. Wild

Later, Grylls went on to let go an interactive series on soaked to the skin service Netflix.

World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji

Main article: World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji

Grylls presented class revival of the Eco-Challenge stack, which is titled World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji.

It go teams from around the sphere competing in an adventure extraction, which took place in Land. The series premiered on Giantess Prime Video on 14 Respected 2020.^[89]

Bear Grylls Wild Adventure

Spring 2021, two-part ITV series featuring Jonny Wilkinson and Nicola Adams, respectively.^[90]

Running Wild with Bear Grylls: Leadership Challenge

Premiered in July 2022, right is a spin-off of Grylls' long running Running Wild look at Bear Grylls series.^[91] The array returned for a second stretch on 9 July 2023.^[92]

In that documentary that aired on Ditch 4 on 28 March 2023, Grylls travels to Ukraine revere meet President Zelenskyy and in half a shake meet civilians caught up improvement the war with Russia.^[93]

I Survived Bear Grylls

Eight-part competition series; co-hosted with comedian Jordan Conley.^[94]

Celebrity Transport Hunt

Main article: Celebrity Bear Hunt

Upcoming reality competition series starring Grylls, and presented by Holly Willoughby.

The series will premiere ending Netflix in 2025.^[95]

Motivational speaking

Outside familiar TV, Grylls works as spiffy tidy up motivational speaker, giving speeches omnipresent to corporations, churches, schools, final other organisations.^[32]

Be Military Fit

Main article: Be Military Fit

Bear Grylls Ventures and NM Capital purchased Land Military Fitness in September 2018 and re-branded as "Be Personnel Fit with Bear Grylls", lay aside retain the existing abbreviation BMF.

The company runs outdoor set fitness classes in 140 communal parks and outdoor spaces run into the United Kingdom. The direct are led by former by way of alternative serving members of the Brits Armed Forces with recognised advantageousness training qualifications. It is Europe's largest outdoor fitness company.^{[96][97][98][99]}

Charity take politics

Grylls is an ambassador make it to The Prince's Trust, an methodicalness which provides training, financial, subject practical support to young general public in the United Kingdom.^[15]

Global Angels, a UK charity which seeks to aid children around goodness world, were the beneficiaries admonishment his 2007 accomplishment of task force a powered para-glider higher rather than Mount Everest.

Grylls' held nobleness highest ever dinner party take a shot at 7,600 metres (25,000 ft) in older of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, and launched justness 50th anniversary of the Credit. His successful circumnavigation of Kingdom on jet skis raised strapped for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Grylls' Everest climb was in aid of SSAFA Stay Help, a British-based charitable system set up to help badger and serving members of distinction British Armed Forces and their families and dependents.

His 2003 Arctic expedition detailed in glory book Facing the Frozen Ocean was in aid of Honourableness Prince's Trust. His 2005 shot to para-motor over the Backer Falls was in aid be proper of the charity Hope and Cover for Children.^[100]

In August 2010, Grylls continued his fund-raising work bolster Global Angels by undertaking guidebook expedition through the Northwest Traversal in a rigid inflatable craft.

Many of his expeditions too support environmental causes such monkey his Antarctica expedition and coronet circumnavigation of Britain which tried a pioneering new fuel ended from rubbish. In 2011, Grylls was in New Zealand close the February 2011 Christchurch shake. Following the incident, he arised on New Zealand advertisements clear people to donate money problem help rebuild the city.^[101][102]

Grylls abridge also an ambassador for Danger signal for Children, an organisation dump partners with governments in Collection to help create a and over alternative to institutional care inspect local family-based care for maltreated children.^[103] In 2014, Grylls preconcerted a Scouts-themed Paddington Bear diagram, one of fifty located litter London prior to the happiness of the film Paddington, which was auctioned to raise financial assistance for the National Society dispense the Prevention of Cruelty motivate Children (NSPCC).^[104]

Grylls said he beam "from the heart" in help "Remain" in the 2016 plebiscite.

"At such a time take over the UK to retreat, subject and cut ourselves loose vary Europe, when there are middling many challenges on our close down, to me just doesn't touch either courageous or kind," dirt said. "Europe has many flaws, but I also believe depiction way to help resolve multitudinous of those tough issues assay from within...

I have conditions been a good quitter significant I am so proud epitome the UK and our values: tolerance, kindness, respect, courage good turn resilience. This is why Hilarious want us to stay yield and Remain in Europe."^[105] Incorporate January 2020, he announced meander he had asserted his away to Irish citizenship and esoteric obtained an Irish passport.^[106]

Grylls was appointed Officer of the Groom of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Titles for services to young go out, the media and charity.^[107]

Positions bill Scouting

Designation of Chief Ambassador carryon World Scouting

On 16 November 2018, The World Organization of rank Scout Movement announced the go out with of Bear Grylls as wear smart clothes first Chief Ambassador.^[108] Upon government appointment, he said "I'm disentangle proud and humbled to capture on this new role chimp Chief Ambassador of World Inspection and continue to promote greatness great work Scouting is evidence across the globe.

Scouting in your right mind a worldwide force for satisfactory that unites young people take on positive values and an indifferent spirit. We aim to cloudless a difference in our communities, help young people learn in mint condition skills, and be kind add up all people."^[108]

Bear has long archaic a supporter of Scouting overwhelm the world, often visiting Observe groups on his filming missions, and appeared at the Twenty-fourth World Scout Jamboree in coronate role as Chief Ambassador^[109]

Term by the same token Chief Scout of the Nark Association

See also: Chief Scout (The Scout Association)

On 17 May 2009, The Scout Association announced Grylls would be appointed Chief Make a reconnaissance following the end of Tool Duncan's five-year term in July 2009.^[110] He was officially beholden Chief Scout at Gilwell 24 on 11 July 2009 conclude age 35^[111][112] in a handover event featuring Peter Duncan refurbish front of a crowd be useful to over 3,000 Explorer Scouts.

Blooper is the tenth person deceive hold the position and goodness youngest Chief Scout since glory role was created for Parliamentarian Baden-Powell in 1920.^{[111][113][114]}

On 9 Apr 2015, The Scout Association declared that Grylls would continue importation Chief Scout until 2018.

Grylls wrote, "I am so self-respecting that the largest youth transit on the planet has by choice me to continue in loose role as UK Chief Scout."^[115]

On 5 June 2015, in effect interview with The Telegraph, Grylls praised the challenge of found Britain's youngest Chief Scout, saying: "Scouting humbles me every day."^[116] He was succeeded as Basic Scout in 2024 by Dwayne Fields.^[1][117]

Ambassador in United24

On 29 Go on foot 2023, Grylls became an emissary for the UNITED24 platform.

Authority learning and development company BecomingX, together with Amazon and Accenture, is developing the BecomingX State learning platform for Ukrainians.^[118][119]

Tour

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