Bear Grylls biography

Every year the death toll on Mount Everest rises, and for every ten mountaineers who make it to the top, one will die. Yet at 7.22am on May 26th 1998, Bear enteredThe Guinness Book of Records as the youngest, and one of only around thirty, British climbers to have successfully climbed Everest and returned alive. He was only 23 years old.

The actual ascent took Bear over ninety days of extreme weather, limited sleep and running out of oxygen deep inside the 'death zone' (above 26,000 feet). On the way down from his first reconnaissance climb, Bear was almost killed in a crevasse at 19,000 feet. The ice cracked and the ground disappeared beneath him, he was knocked unconscious and came to swinging on the end of a rope. His team-mate and that rope saved his life. The expedition was raising funds for the Rainbow Trust and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

Previously, in 1997, Bear had become the Youngest Briton to climb Mount Ama Dablam in the Himalayas (22,500 feet), a peak once described by Sir Edmund Hillary as unclimbable'.

Prior to the Everest Expedition, Bear, also a Karate Black Belt, spent three years with the

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Bear Grylls

Personal life

Grylls grew up in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland and Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.^[7][8] He is the son of the late Conservative party politicianSir Michael Grylls and Lady Grylls (née Sarah Ford).^[9] His maternal grandparents were Patricia Ford,^[10] an Ulster Unionist Party MP andNeville Ford who played first-class cricket. He has one sibling—an elder sister, Lara Fawcett, a cardio-tennis coach. In an episode of Man vs. Wild featuring Hollywood actor Will Ferrell, he said his sister gave him the nickname "Bear" when he was just a week old.

Grylls was educated at Eaton House, Ludgrove School, Eton College, and Birkbeck, University of London,^[11] where he graduated with a degree, obtained part-time, in Hispanic studies in 2002. He learned to climb and sail from his father at an early age. As a teenager, he learned to skydive and also earned a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate. He now practices Yoga and Ninjutsu. He also became involved in scouting, beginning at age eight, as a cub scout.^[12] He speaks English, Spanish, and French.^[13] Grylls is Christian, describing his faith as the "backbone" in his life.^[13][14]

Grylls married Shara Grylls (née Cannings Knight) in 2000.^[3][10] They have three sons: Jesse, Marmaduke,^[15] and Huckleberry (born 15 January 2009 via natural childbirth on his houseboat).^[5]

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