bear grylls
Bear Grylls, (born Edward Michael Grylls, 7 June 1974) is an English adventurer, writer and television presenter. [1]
WILD host, author and seasoned adventurer BEAR GRYLLS began a lifetime of exploration at an early age. [2]
On the back of the success of the Foreign Legion Documentary, Bear was commissioned to present 15 x 1-hour programmes for a TV Series called ‘Man Vs Wild’ on Discovery Channel Worldwide, plus also an 8-part TV Series for Channel Four titled ‘Born Survivor: Bear Grylls’. [3]
Bear Grylls, star of “Man vs. Wild,” has done plenty of challenging things during the nearly five-year run of the worst-case-scenario survival show. [4]
Yet at 7.22am on May 26th 1998, Bear entered The Guinness Book of Records as the youngest, and one of only around thirty, British climbers to have successfully climbed Everest and returned alive. [3]
He is best known for his television series Man vs. Wild, known as Born Survivor in the United Kingdom. [1]
But for Bear, it is not just about pushing his limits. [5]
Man vs. Wild, also called Born Survivor: Bear Grylls, Ultimate Survival, or Survival Game, is a survival television series hosted by Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel. [6]
Bear’s most recent book, Born Survivor: Survival Techniques From the Most Dangerous Places on Earth, was released in spring 2007. [...] Bear hosted a 2005 television series for the U.K.’s Channel Four, called Escape to the Legion, in which he took a group of young men to the Western Sahara Desert to undergo the French Foreign Legion’s infamous basic training. [2]
His first major TV Series was for Channel Four, called ‘Escape to the Legion’, where he went through simulated basic training with Legionaires in North Africa and told the story of what it is like for a recruit to join the French Foreign Legion. [3]
In 2009, Bear was chosen and appointed as Chief Scout, and figurehead to 28 million Scouts worldwide. [5]
Grylls spent the next 18 months in and out of military rehabilitation at Headley Court before being discharged and directing his efforts into trying to get well enough to fulfil his childhood dream of climbing Mount Everest. [1]
During the show’s sixth season — new episodes begin airing on Discovery on Monday night — the 37-year-old will not only continue to push himself, but one very pretty, high-profile actor: Jake Gyllenhaal. [4]
In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngest ever Chief Scout at the age of 35. [1]
Sources:
[1] Bear Grylls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] Bear Grylls : Man vs. Wild : Discovery Channel
[3] Biography | Bear Grylls
[4] Bear Grylls talks about manning up with Jake Gyllenhaal for ‘Men …
[5] Bear Grylls | International Speaker | Best selling Author …
[6] Man vs. Wild - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia