$25,000,000
Bear Grylls
Net Worth
Born in (City)
London
Born in (Country)
England
Date of Birth
07th December, 1974
Date of Death
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Mother
Sarah "Sally
Father
Sir Michael Grylls
Children
- Jesse Grylls
- Marmaduke Grylls
- Huckleberry Grylls
About
Edward Michael Grylls OBE (born 7 June 1974), 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. Wild (2006–2011), originally titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls for the United Kingdom release. Grylls is also involved in many wilderness survival television series in the UK and US. In July 2009, 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 2015.
What is Man Vs Wild?
Man vs. Wild, also called Born Survivor: Bear Grylls, Ultimate Survival, Survival Game, Real Survival Hero, or colloquially as simply Bear Grylls in the United Kingdom, is a survival television series hosted by Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel. In the United Kingdom, the series was originally shown on Channel 4, but the show’s later seasons were broadcast on Discovery Channel U.K. The series was produced by British television production company Diverse Bristol. The show was premiered on November 10, 2006, after airing a pilot episode titled "The Rockies" on March 10, 2006. Grylls also said he has been approached about doing a Man vs. Wild urban disaster 3D feature film, which he said he would "really like to do".He signed on to showcase urban survival techniques in a Discovery show called Worst-Case Scenario, which premiered on May 5, 2010, on the network. In March 2012, Discovery Channel terminated its contract with Bear Grylls due to contract disputes, effectively canceling the series. On April 10, 2019, Netflix brought Bear Grylls back to wilderness in You vs. Wild, which contains 8 episodes.
Early Life
Edward Michael Grylls was born on 7 June 1974 in London. His grandfather, Neville Ford, and his great-grandfather, William Augustus Ford, were both first-class cricketers from a family with a deep cricket heritage. He grew up in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland until he was four years old when his family moved to Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. He is the son of Sir Michael Grylls, a conservative politician, and his wife Sarah "Sally." Grylls has one sibling, Lara Fawcett, who gave her the nickname 'Bear' when she was a week old. From an early age, he and his father, who was a member of the prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron, learned to climb and sail. He learned to skydive as a teenager and received a second dan black belt in the Shotokan karate. He speaks English, French, and Spanish. He is an Anglican, and in his life, he described his Christian faith as the "backbone." Grylls was educated at Eaton House, Ludgrove School, and Eton College, where he helped set up his first mountaineering club. He studied Spanish and German at the University of the West of England, Bristol and Birkbeck College, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree of 2:2 and received a part-time degree in Hispanic in 2002. After leaving school, Grylls hiked briefly in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal. From 1994-1997, he served in the Territorial Army with 21 SAS troops specialized in unarmed combat, desert and winter warfare, survival, climbing, parachuting, and explosives. He has been sent to North Africa twice as a survival coach. His time in the SAS ended as a result of a free-fall parachute crash the year before in Kenya, when his parachute failed to deploy, fracturing three vertebrae. Grylls was given the honorary rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve in 2004 and was awarded the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Marine Reserve in 2013.
Road to Success
On 16 May 1998, Grylls made his childhood dream of climbing to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, 18 months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachute crash. At the age of 23, he was among the youngest people to have accomplished this feat. There is some debate as to whether he was the youngest Briton to do so, as was succeeded by James Allen, a climber with dual Australian and British citizenship, who scaled the summit at the age of 22 in 1995. Since then, the record has been overtaken by Jake Meyer and then by Rob Gauntlett, who peaked at the age of 19. In order to train for climbing at such high altitudes in the Himalayas, in 1997, Grylls became the youngest Briton to climb Ama Dablam, a peak once identified by Sir Edmund Hillary as "unclimbable". In 2000, Grylls led the team to circumnavigate the British Isles on jet skis for about 30 days, to raise funds for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). He also rowed nude in a homemade bathtub along the Thames to raise money for a friend who had broken his legs in a climbing accident. Three years later, he led a team of five, including his childhood mate, SAS colleague, and Mount Everest climbing partner Mick Crosthwaite, unattended across the North Atlantic Ocean, in an open rigid inflatable ferry. Grylls and his crew sailed on an eleven-meter-long boat and found a force of 8 gale winds and waves crashing over the boat as they crossed icebergs on their voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to John Groats, Scotland.
Challenges
In 2005, alongside balloonist and mountaineer David Hempleman-Adams and Lieutenant Commander Alan Veal, chief of the Royal Navy Freefall Parachute Demonstration Unit, Grylls set the world record for the highest open-air formal dinner party, which was held under a hot-air balloon at 7 600 meters (25.000 ft) in full-size clothing and oxygen masks. He made over 200 parachute jumps to prepare for the event. The event was in support of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award and The Prince's Trust. In 2007, Grylls embarked on a Parajet paramotor record setup in the Himalayas near Mount Everest. He took off from 4.400 meters (14.500 ft), 8 miles (13 km) south of the peak. Grylls recorded looking down at the summit during his climb and dealing with temperatures of −60 °C (−76 °F). He experienced a dangerously low level of oxygen and finally reached 9,000 meters (29,500 ft), almost 3,000 meters (10,000 ft) higher than the previous record of 6,102 meters (20,019 ft). The feat was filmed for Discovery Channel worldwide as well as for Channel 4 in the UK. Although Grylls had originally intended to cross Everest itself, it was only permitted to travel south of Everest, and he did not cross Everest at the risk of breaching Chinese airspace. In 2008, Grylls led a team of four to ascend one of the world's most remote unclimbed peaks in Antarctica, raise money for Global Angels Children's Charity, and support the use of renewable energies. On this mission, the team has set out to explore the coast of Antarctica with inflatable boats and jet skis, partly powered by bioethanol, and then to fly across some of the vast ice deserts with wind-powered kite skis and electric powered paramotors. The expedition was shortened, however, after Grylls sustained a fractured shoulder while kite skiing over a stretch of ice. Traveling at speeds of up to 50 km/h (30 mph), skiing stuck on the ground, throwing him in the air and fracturing his shoulder as he came down. He had to be evacuated medically. Grylls, along with the double-amputee Al5-007 and the Scottish man Freddy MacDonald, set the Guinness world record for the longest continuous indoor freefall in 2008. The previous record was 1 hour and 36 minutes for the US team. Grylls, Paddy, and MacDonald using a vertical wind tunnel in Milton Keynes beat the record by a few seconds. The effort was made to help the Worldwide Angels foundation. In September 2010, Grylls led a team of five to send an ice-breaking rigid-inflatable boat (RIB) through 5,700 nautical miles (10,600 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.
Failures
Grylls hosts a series entitled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls for British Channel 4 and broadcasts as Man vs Wild in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, and the United States, and as Ultimate Survival on the Discovery Channel in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The series shows Grylls lowered to inhospitable environments, teaching audiences how to live. Man vs. Wild premiered in 2006, and its popularity has led to seven seasons spanning five years. The show has featured stunts including Grylls climbing cliffs, parachuting from helicopters, balloons, and planes, paragliding, ice climbing, running through a forest fire, wading rapids, eating snakes, wrapping his urine-soaked T-shirt around his head to help stave off the desert heat, drinking urine saved in a rattlesnake skin, drinking fecal liquid from elephant dung, eating deer droppings, wrestling alligators, field dressing a camel carcass and drinking water from it, eating various "creepy crawlies" [insects], using the corpse of a sheep as a sleeping bag and flotation device, free climbing waterfalls and using a bird guano/water enema for hydration. The show sparked outrage when a program analyst announced that Grylls had actually stayed in a hotel for a few nights – including an episode in Hawaii in which Grylls was ostensibly trapped on a deserted island – and that several scenes had been staged for him. Subsequently, Grylls apologized to fans who may have been deceived. In March 2012, the Discovery Channel pulled Grylls from its lineup due to a commercial disagreement, but it later collaborated with them again.
Achievements
In 2004, this adventurer was felicitated with an honorary rank of lieutenant commander in the ‘Royal Naval Reserve.’|In 2013, he was bestowed with an honorary rank of lieutenant colonel in the ‘Royal Marines Reserve.’|In 2019, Grylls was honored and appointed as ‘Officer of the Order of the British Empire’ (OBE) by the Queen of England.
Quotes
- Listen to quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind
- Keep focused on the step in front of you. Nothing else matters.
- If you risk nothing you gain nothing