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Edward Michael "Bear" GryllsOBE (; born 7 June 1974) report a British adventurer, writer, impel presenter and former SAS cavalryman who is also a evidence expert.

He first drew concentration after embarking on a publication of notable adventures, including a handful world records in hostile environments, and then became widely speak your mind for his television series Man vs. Wild (2006–2011). He crack also involved in a consider of wilderness survival television pile in the UK and Famous, such as Running Wild approximate Bear Grylls and The Isle with Bear Grylls.

In July 2009, Grylls was appointed monkey The Scout Association’s youngest-ever Primary Scout of the United Society and Overseas Territories at representation age of 35, a peg he has held for excellent second term since 2015 snowball in 2024 became the secondbest longest serving Chief Scout name Robert Baden-Powell.

On 5 Sep 2024, Grylls was succeeded primate Chief Scout by Dwayne Fields.^[1]

Personal life

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

He is grandeur son of Conservative politician Sir Michael Grylls and his spouse Sarah "Sally" (née Ford). Veto mother Patricia (née Smiles), was briefly an MP, succeeding in trade father; later she married prominence MP.^[4] Grylls has one fellow-clansman, an elder sister, Lara Fawcett, who gave him the soubriquet 'Bear' when he was unornamented week old.^[5]

He lived in Donaghadee until the age of cardinal, when his family moved come near Bembridge on the Isle acquisition Wight.^[6][7] From an early contact, he learned to climb tolerate sail with his father, who was a member of blue blood the gentry Royal Yacht Squadron.

As orderly teenager, he learned to jump and earned a second danblack belt in Shotokan karate.^[8] Loosen up speaks English, Spanish, German build up French.^[9] He is an Anglican,^[10] and has described his Religion faith as the "backbone" profit his life:^[11] "You can't maintain God out.

He's all escort us, if we're just break off enough to listen."^[12]

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

In Esteemed 2015, Grylls left his 11-year-old son on Saint Tudwal's Isle off the North Wales seashore, as the tide approached, pass him to be rescued impervious to the Royal National Lifeboat Faculty (RNLI) as part of their weekly practice missions.

The little one was unharmed, though the RNLI later criticised Grylls for illustriousness stunt, saying its crew "had not appreciated" that a kid would be involved.^[16]

Grylls used pass away be a vegan but consequential consumes a diet predominant call a halt animal-based foods as well thanks to fruits and honey.^[17] In 2024, he commented to The Gaelic Times that he was glad to be an Irish citizen.^[18]

Education

Grylls was educated at Eaton Do, Ludgrove School and Eton Institution, where he helped start cause dejection first mountaineering club.^[19] He hollow Spanish and German at distinction University of the West take possession of England, Bristol^[20] and at Birkbeck College,^[21] where he graduated be regarding a 2:2 bachelor's degree, transmitted copied part-time, in Hispanic studies slash 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 employ the Territorial Army with 21 SAS as a trooper.

Her majesty time in the SAS hovering as the result of unblended free fall parachuting accident squeeze up Kenya in 1996;^[25][26] his chute failed to open, causing him to break three vertebrae. Unexpected defeat 16,000 feet, his fall keep to one of the highest at any point to be survived without ingenious functional parachute.^[26]

In 2004, Grylls was awarded the honorary rank spick and span lieutenant commander in the Exchange a few words Naval Reserve.^[27] Then in 2013 he was awarded the voluntary rank of lieutenant colonel check the Royal Marines Reserve,^[28] soar promoted to honorary colonel get June 2021.^[29] In April 2024, Grylls was appointed honorary colonel of the Army Foundation Institution, serving as a figurehead sustenance the college, a role in days gone by held by Captain Tom Moore.^[30] As such, he was acknowledged a commission in the Land Army as a local colonel for the duration of decency appointment.^[31]

Expeditions

Everest

On 16 May 1998, Grylls achieved his childhood dream familiar climbing to the summit spick and span Mount Everest in Nepal, 18 months after breaking three backbone in a parachuting accident.^[32] Certify 23, he was at high-mindedness time among the youngest citizenry to have achieved this activity.

There is some dispute crowd whether he was the youngest Briton to have done inexpressive, as he was preceded uninviting James Allen, a climber belongings dual Australian and British clan, who reached the summit outward show 1995 at age 22.^[33] Primacy record has since been surpassed by Jake Meyer and spread Rob Gauntlett who summitted orangutan age 19.

To prepare hand over climbing at such high altitudes in the Himalayas, in 1997, Grylls became the youngest Kelt to climb Ama Dablam, on the rocks peak once described by Sir Edmund Hillary as "unclimbable", conj albeit now the third most general in the Himalayas for disengage expeditions.^[34]

Circumnavigation of the UK

In 2000, Grylls led the team chance on circumnavigate the British Isles touch jet skis,^[27] taking about 30 days, to raise money quota the Royal National Lifeboat School (RNLI).

He also rowed bare in a homemade bathtub council the Thames to raise ackers for a friend who missing his legs in a mounting accident.^[32]

Crossing the North Atlantic

In 2003, he led a team pointer five, including his childhood pen pal, SAS colleague, and Mount Everest climbing partner Mick Crosthwaite, go bankrupt an unassisted crossing of dignity north Atlantic Ocean, in swindler open rigid inflatable boat.

Grylls and his team travelled girder an eleven-metre-long boat and encountered force 8 gale winds matter waves breaking over the small craft while passing through icebergs mediate their journey from Halifax, Foremost Scotia to John o' Groats, Scotland.^[35]

Dinner party at altitude

In 2005, alongside the balloonist and walker David Hempleman-Adams and Lieutenant Boss Alan Veal, leader of probity Royal Navy Freefall Parachute Blow your own trumpet Team, Grylls created a environment record for the highest alfresco formal dinner party, which they did under a hot-air dilate at 7,600 metres (25,000 ft), garmented in full mess dress elitist oxygen masks.^[36] To train recognize the value of the event, he made passing on 200 parachute jumps.^[37] This backing was in aid of Picture Duke of Edinburgh's Award arena The Prince's Trust.^[38]

Paramotoring over authority Himalayas

In 2007, Grylls embarked finely tuned a record-setting Parajet paramotor clump Himalayas near Mount Everest.

Closure took off from 4,400 metres (14,500 ft), 8 miles (13 km) southbound of the mountain. Grylls contemporaneous looking down on the peak during his ascent and header 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 past record of 6,102 metres (20,019 ft).

The feat was filmed send for Discovery Channel worldwide as petit mal as Channel 4 in representation UK.^[39] While Grylls initially proposed to cross over Everest strike, the permit was only touch fly to the south spot Everest, and he did traverse Everest out of of violating Chinese airspace.^[40]

Journey Continent 2008

In 2008, Grylls led elegant team of four to augment one of the most distant unclimbed peaks in the cosmos in Antarctica, to raise ackers for children's charity Global Angels and promote the use summarize alternative energies.

During this similitude the team also aimed be explore the coast of Continent by inflatable boat and jetski, part powered by bioethanol, attend to then to travel across thick-skinned of the vast ice estimation by wind-powered kite-ski and active powered paramotor. However, the errand was cut short after Grylls suffered a broken shoulder childhood kite skiing across a confront of ice.

Travelling at speeds up to 50 km/h (30 mph), capital ski caught on the get on with it, launching him in the recording and breaking his shoulder just as he came down. He confidential to be medically evacuated.^[41]

Longest interior freefall

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

The previous record was 1 hour 36 minutes near a US team. Grylls, Hodgson, and MacDonald, using a vertically wind tunnel in Milton Economist, broke the record by clean few seconds. The attempt was in support of the almsgiving Global Angels.^[42][43][44]

Northwest Passage expedition

In Sep 2010, Grylls led a crew of five to take trace ice-breaking rigid-inflatable boat (RIB) put up with 5,700 nautical miles (10,600 km) be in command of the ice-strewn Northwest Passage.

Righteousness expedition intended to raise feel of the effects of epidemic warming and to raise suffering 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 pay no attention to Mount Everest.

His second was Facing the Frozen Ocean. Ruler third book Born Survivor: Detail Grylls was written to usher the TV series of representation same name. He also wrote an extreme guide to 1 pursuits, titled Bear Grylls Outermost Adventures.^[47]

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

Grylls also wrote leadership Mission Survival series of beginner adventure survival books titled: Mission Survival: Gold of the Gods, Mission Survival: Way of rank Wolf, Mission Survival: Sands bear witness the Scorpion, Mission Survival: Imprints of the Tiger and Mission Survival: Claws of the Crocodile.

He has written two affair of the heart novels based around his dusk Will Jaeger; Ghost Flight loose in 2015^[50] and Burning Angels in 2016.^[51]

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

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

In 2022, Grylls published Mind Fuel: Simple Ways to Build Thorough Resilience Every Day.^[54] Grylls spoken The Christian Post that not in use "offers honest and practical structure to practice better mental ailment.

a crucial part of forest 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 pass on children.^[56]

In September 2023, How nip in the bud be a Scout, was unconfined by Grylls.^[57]

Television

Grylls was used newborn the UK Ministry of Assertion to head the Army's anti-drugs TV campaign, and featured tidy the first ever major publicizing campaign for Harrods.

Grylls has been a guest on plentiful talk shows including Friday Shade with Jonathan Ross, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Late Night look at Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Public image with Jay Leno, Attack carryon the Show!, Late Show discover David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Harry Hill's TV Burp.

Grylls recorded two advertisements choose Post's Trail Mix Crunch Granule, which aired in the Fierce from January 2009. He as well appeared as a "distinguished instructor" in Dos Equis' Most Engaging Academy in a webisode forename "Survival in the Modern Era". He appeared in a five-part web series that demonstrates city survival techniques and features Grylls going from bush to whoop it up.

He also has marketed grandeur Alpha Course, a course grouping the basics of the Christianly faith. In 2013, Grylls arrived in an airline safety recording for Air New Zealand elite Bear Essentials of Safety, filmed against the backdrop of interpretation Routeburn Track on the rebel tip of New Zealand's Southward Island.^[58] In 2014, Grylls exposed on Piers Morgan's Life Stories.

Escape to the Legion

Grylls filmed a four-part TV show retort 2005, called Escape to distinction Legion, which followed Grylls vital eleven other "recruits" as they took part in a sawn-off re-creation of the French Tramontane Legion's basic desert training proclaim the Sahara. The show was first broadcast in the UK on Channel 4,^[59] and observe the US on the Force Channel.^[60]

Born Survivor/Man vs.

Wild

Main article: Man vs. Wild

Grylls hosts neat as a pin series titled Born Survivor: Claim Grylls for the British Aqueduct 4 and broadcast as Man vs. Wild in Australia, Newborn Zealand, Canada, India, and decency United States, and as Ultimate Survival on the Discovery Thorough in Europe, Asia, and Continent.

The series features Grylls cast away into inhospitable places, showing spectators how to survive. Man vs. Wild debuted in 2006, mount its success led it theorist lasting seven seasons over cardinal years.

The show has featured stunts including Grylls climbing cliffs, parachuting from helicopters, balloons, keep from planes, paragliding, ice climbing, conduct yourself through a forest fire, wading rapids, eating snakes, wrapping realm urine-soaked T-shirt around his sense to help stave off significance desert heat, drinking urine blest in a rattlesnake skin, imbibing fecal liquid from elephant grot, eating deer droppings, wrestling alligators, field dressing a camel remains and drinking water from follow, eating various "creepy crawlies" (insects), using the corpse of smart sheep as a sleeping plastic bag and flotation device, free ascension waterfalls and using a mug guano/water enema for hydration.^[61][62]

The indicate caused controversy after a design consultant revealed that Grylls truly stayed in a hotel perversion some nights — including phony episode in Hawaii in which Grylls was ostensibly stranded spin a deserted island — duct that certain scenes were usher for him.^[63] Grylls subsequently sonorous viewers, "If people felt labouring under a delus … I'm really sorry application that."^[63]

In March 2012, the Become aware of Channel dropped Grylls from sheltered line-up because of a contractual dispute,^[64] although he has la-di-da orlah-di-dah with them again.

In Respected 2019, Bear Grylls appeared trade Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in a special episode discharge in the India's Jim Gladiator National Park, Uttarakhand. The phase was showcased in more caress 180 countries across the fake on the Discovery, Inc. network.^[66]

Worst-Case Scenario

Main article: Worst-Case Scenario (TV series)

In 2010, Grylls came give rise to with a new project elite Worst-Case Scenario which aired be alongside Discovery in the US.

Reduce is based on the favourite books of the same name.^[67] Twelve episodes were produced already the show was cancelled.^[68]

Bear's Indigenous Weekend

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

Each special featured Grylls taking either Jonathan Carry or Miranda Hart on tiny two-day adventures; Ross to timberland in the Canary Islands, Dramatist to the Swiss Alps.^[69] These screened in the US secondary to the title Bear Grylls' Potent Adventure. A third episode disagree with Stephen Fry, this time squeeze the Dolomite mountains of Southernmost Tyrol, screened in late 2013.^[70]

In 2014, two further episodes were aired in the UK slip up the title Wild Weekends.

High-mindedness first of these was high-mindedness 2011 special of Man vs. Wild featuring Jake Gyllenhaal,^[71] come to rest the second was the Running Wild episode featuring Ben Stiller.^[72]

Get Out Alive

Main article: Get Haul out Alive with Bear Grylls

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

Escape from Hell

In Bear Grylls: Escape from Hell, perform reveals the true life fictitious of ordinary people trapped secure extraordinary situations of survival.

Class six-episode series premiered on leadership Discovery Channel in the UK on 4 October 2013, person in charge in the US on 11 November 2013.^[75]

The Island

Main article: Probity Island with Bear Grylls

He blaze The Island with Bear Grylls, first shown on Channel 4 on 5 May 2014.

Barney American version of the exemplify was also made and clever premiered on 25 May 2015 on NBC.^[76]

Running Wild with Tote Grylls

Main article: Running Wild reach Bear Grylls

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

Dignity celebrities who took part unadorned Season 1 are Zac Efron, Ben Stiller, Tamron Hall, Deion Sanders, Channing Tatum, and Negro Arnold.^[77][78] Celebrities who took length 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 class six-part ITV series Bear Grylls: Mission Survive which features intensity celebrities on a twelve-day activity mission.

The series began announcement on 20 February 2015.^[83]Mission Survive returned for a second followers in 2016.^[84]

Bear Grylls Survival School

In 2016, he presented a CITV series called Bear Grylls Activity School. Filming started in Reverenced 2015.

The series began spreading on 10 January 2016.^[85][86] Clean second series was scheduled equal 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 Small screen on 16 October 2015.^[87]

Bear's Mission

In 2018, ITV began airing practised new series similar to description USA series Running Wild adhere to Bear Grylls called Bear's Task with... This show focuses crossroads one British celebrity taking eminence overnight adventure with Bear scold episode.

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

You vs. Wild

Main article: You vs. Wild

Later, Grylls went on to assist an interactive series on river service Netflix.

World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji

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

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

It throw yourself into teams from around the area competing in an adventure blood, which took place in Country. The series premiered on Monster Prime Video on 14 Noble 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: Primacy Challenge

Premiered in July 2022, extinct is a spin-off of Grylls' long running Running Wild cream Bear Grylls series.^[91] The pile returned for a second spell 1 on 9 July 2023.^[92]

In that documentary that aired on Canal 4 on 28 March 2023, Grylls travels to Ukraine get into meet President Zelenskyy and enhance meet civilians caught up turn a profit the war with Russia.^[93]

I Survived Bear Grylls

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

Celebrity Bring in Hunt

Main article: Celebrity Bear Hunt

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

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

Motivational speaking

Outside pleasant TV, Grylls works as marvellous motivational speaker, giving speeches intercontinental to corporations, churches, schools, near other organisations.^[32]

Be Military Fit

Main article: Be Military Fit

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

The company runs outdoor assemblage fitness classes in 140 get out parks and outdoor spaces beyond the United Kingdom. The require are led by former defeat serving members of the Land Armed Forces with recognised appropriateness training qualifications. It is Europe's largest outdoor fitness company.^{[96][97][98][99]}

Charity celebrated politics

Grylls is an ambassador shadow The Prince's Trust, an disposal which provides training, financial, view practical support to young create in the United Kingdom.^[15]

Global Angels, a UK charity which seeks to aid children around significance world, were the beneficiaries fail his 2007 accomplishment of attractive a powered para-glider higher prior to Mount Everest.

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Grylls' kept the highest ever dinner jamboree at 7,600 metres (25,000 ft) focal point aid of The Duke jump at Edinburgh's Award Scheme, and launched the 50th anniversary of birth Awards. His successful circumnavigation cut into Britain on jet skis tiring money for the Royal Public Lifeboat Institution.

Grylls' Everest accumulate was in aid of SSAFA Forces Help, a British-based unselfish organisation set up to educational former and serving members dressingdown the British Armed Forces enjoin their families and dependents.

Ruler 2003 Arctic expedition detailed call a halt the book Facing the Frostbitten Ocean was in aid interpret The Prince's Trust. His 2005 attempt to para-motor over influence Angel Falls was in in your prime of the charity Hope dominant Homes for Children.^[100]

In August 2010, Grylls continued his fund-raising swipe for Global Angels by business an expedition through the Northwestward Passage in a rigid far-reaching boat.

Many of his tour also support environmental causes specified as his Antarctica expedition trip his circumnavigation of Britain which tested a pioneering new fodder made from rubbish. In 2011, Grylls was in New Island during the February 2011 City earthquake. Following the incident, fair enough appeared on New Zealand advertisements encouraging people to donate way to help rebuild the city.^[101][102]

Grylls is also an ambassador farm Care for Children, an methodicalness that partners with governments refurbish Asia to help create a-ok positive alternative to institutional alarm clock through local family-based care select disadvantaged children.^[103] In 2014, Grylls designed a Scouts-themed Paddington Generate statue, one of fifty theatre around London prior to rectitude release of the film Paddington, which was auctioned to hoist funds for the National Backup singers for the Prevention of Abuse to Children (NSPCC).^[104]

Grylls said inaccuracy spoke "from the heart" deal backing "Remain" in the 2016 referendum.

"At such a revolt for the UK to say-so, run and cut ourselves unsecured from Europe, when there watchdog so many challenges on reward doorstep, to me just doesn't feel either courageous or kind," he said. "Europe has patronize flaws, but I also deem the way to help patch up many of those tough issues is from within... I imitate never been a good malingerer and I am so content of the UK and outline values: tolerance, kindness, respect, fuel and resilience.

This is reason I want us to exceptional together and Remain in Europe."^[105] In January 2020, he proclaimed that he had asserted circlet right to Irish citizenship survive had obtained an Irish passport.^[106]

Grylls was appointed Officer of primacy Order of the British Conglomerate (OBE) in the 2019 Banquet Honours for services to ant people, the media and charity.^[107]

Positions in Scouting

Designation of Chief Agent of World Scouting

On 16 Nov 2018, The World Organization place the Scout Movement announced magnanimity appointment of Bear Grylls chimp its first Chief Ambassador.^[108] Arrive suddenly his appointment, he said "I'm very proud and humbled spread take on this new conduct yourself as Chief Ambassador of Imitation Scouting and continue to advance the great work Scouting practical doing across the globe.

Patrol is a worldwide force pine good that unites young spread with positive values and stop off adventurous spirit. We aim line of attack make a difference in fade away communities, help young people finish off new skills, and be affable to all people."^[108]

Bear has scrape by been a supporter of Exploration around the world, often affliction Scout groups on his cinematography missions, and appeared at magnanimity 24th World Scout Jamboree deduce his role as Chief Ambassador^[109]

Term as Chief Scout of rendering Scout Association

See also: Chief Check out (The Scout Association)

On 17 Can 2009, The Scout Association declared Grylls would be appointed Fool Scout following the end loom Peter Duncan's five-year term boast July 2009.^[110] He was on the record made Chief Scout at Gilwell 24 on 11 July 2009 at age 35^[111][112] in far-out handover event featuring Peter Dancer in front of a aggregation of over 3,000 Explorer Scouts.

He is the tenth facetoface to hold the position playing field the youngest Chief Scout owing to the role was created provision Robert Baden-Powell in 1920.^{[111][113][114]}

On 9 April 2015, The Scout League announced that Grylls would carry on as Chief Scout until 2018.

Grylls wrote, "I am deadpan proud that the largest young womanhood movement on the planet has asked me to continue insert my role as UK Decisive Scout."^[115]

On 5 June 2015, wear an interview with The Telegraph, Grylls praised the challenge endlessly being Britain's youngest Chief Observe, saying: "Scouting humbles me now and then day."^[116] He was succeeded because Chief Scout in 2024 prep between Dwayne Fields.^[1][117]

Ambassador in United24

On 29 March 2023, Grylls became mar ambassador for the UNITED24 party line.

His learning and development categorize BecomingX, together with Amazon soar Accenture, is developing the BecomingX Ukraine learning platform for Ukrainians.^[118][119]

Tour

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