When was bear grylls born

Grylls was educated at Eaton House, Ludgrove School , Eton College, where he helped start its first mountaineering club. As a teenager, he learned to skydive and earned a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate. At age eight he became a Cub Scout. Grylls married Shara Cannings Knight in After leaving school, Grylls briefly considered joining the Indian Army and hiked in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal.

In , he suffered a freefall parachuting accident in Zambia. His canopy ripped at 4, metres 16, ft , partially opening, causing him to fall and land on his parachute pack on his back, which partially crushed three vertebrae. Grylls later said: "I should have cut the main parachute and gone to the reserve but thought there was time to resolve the problem".

Grylls spent the next 12 months in and out of military rehabilitation at Headley Court [20] before being discharged from his medical treatment and directing his efforts into trying to get well enough to fulfil his childhood dream of climbing Mount Everest.

On 16 May , Grylls achieved his childhood dream climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, 18 months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident. There is some controversy around whether he was, as claimed, the youngest Briton to have done so, as he was preceded by James Allen—an Australian climber with dual British citizenship who reached the summit in at age To prepare for climbing at such high altitudes in the Himalayas, in , Grylls became the youngest Briton to climb Ama Dablam , a peak once described by Sir Edmund Hillary as "unclimbable".

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. Three years later, 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 travelled in an eleven-metre-long boat and encountered force 8 gale wind with waves breaking over the boat while passing through icebergs in their journey from Halifax, Nova Scotia to John o' Groats , Scotland.

The team was attempting to reach the highest, most remote tepuis. In , 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, metres 25, ft , dressed in full mess dress and oxygen masks. He took off from 4, metres 14, ft , 8 miles south of the mountain.

He endured dangerously low oxygen levels and eventually reached 9, metres 29, ft , almost 3, metres 10, ft higher than the previous record of 6, metres 20, ft. The expedition provoked some controversy. Grylls initially reported on his blog to have broken a new world record by flying over Mount Everest, when in fact — though reaching a height greater than Everest — he did not actually fly over the top of the mountain but was in fact some miles away from it.

In , Grylls lead a team of four to climb one of the most remote unclimbed peaks in the world in Antarctica. This was raising funds for Global Angels kids charity and awareness for the potential 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.

He had to be medically evacuated. Grylls, along with the double amputee Al Hodgson and the Scotsman Freddy MacDonald, set a Guinness world record in for the longest continuous indoor freefall. 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. In August , Grylls lead a team of five to take an ice-breaking rigid-inflatable boat RIB through 2, miles 4, 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. 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.

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. It features survival skills learned from some of the world's most hostile places. He also wrote an extreme guide to outdoor pursuits, titled Bear Grylls Outdoor Adventures. Grylls filmed a four-part TV show in , 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 series features Grylls dropped into inhospitable places, showing viewers how to survive. Man vs. Wild debuted in , and its success led it to lasting seven seasons over five years.

The show caused controversy after a programme consultant revealed that Grylls actually stayed in a motel 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.

In March the Discovery Channel dropped Grylls from its lineup because of a contractual dispute. Life Lessons. Adult Fiction. Adventures for Young Adults. Adventure Books for Kids. Activity Books for Kids. Adventure Stories for Kids. Experiences The Bear Grylls Adventure.

Bear Grylls Survival Academy. Be Military Fit with Bear Grylls. He had three sons with Shara Grylls, whom he married in Edward Michael Grylls OBE born 7 June , better known as Bear Grylls, is a British former SAS serviceman, survival instructor, and honorary lieutenant-colonel, and, outside his military career, an adventurer, writer, television presenter and businessman. He is widely known for his television series Man vs. Grylls is also involved in a number of wilderness survival television series in the UK and US.

In July , Grylls was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories at age 35, a post he has held for a second term since From —, he served in the British Army reserves 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, when his parachute failed to open, breaking three vertebrae.

On 16 May , 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. 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 at age The record has since been surpassed by Jake Meyer and then Rob Gauntlett who summitted at age 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.

His attempt to para-motor over the Angel Falls was in aid of the charity Hope and Homes for Children. Ranked on the list of most popular Reality Star. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in Northern Ireland.

Bear Grylls celebrates birthday on June 7 of every year. Grylls was educated at Eaton House, Ludgrove School and Eton College, where he helped start its first mountaineering club.