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Edward Michael Bear Grylls (born 7 June 1974), known as Bear Grylls, is a British mountaineer, adventurer, author, television presenter, and motivational speaker. Here are some interesting facts about his life:

	Made his Name by: Grylls, a former member of the Special Air Service (SAS), made his name in 1998 by becoming, at the age of 23, the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest and return alive.
	TV Fame now: He hosts the television programme Man vs. Wild (on Channel 4 in the UK and on the worldwide Discovery Channel) and is currently filming new HD episodes of Man vs. Wild.
	But the Room Service was Terrible: Grylls was recently reported as staying in motels/hotels in the Sierra Nevadas and in Hawaii while filming his show "Man vs.Wild" when the TV audience assumed he was sleeping in the wild alone. Also, in Hawaii, it has been reported that a team constructed the raft he floated away on, not Grylls (the raft was disassembled by the team so they could film Grylls putting it back together).
	Parents: He is the son of the late Conservative party politician Sir Michael Grylls and his wife Sally.
	Education: He was educated at Eton College and studied for a degree in Hispanic Studies from London University.
	Nearly Died: He served part-time for three years in the British Special Forces in the British SAS before a parachuting accident broke his spine in three places, forcing him to leave the Forces.
	Barge for a home: Bear lives on a converted barge on the River Thames with his wife Shannon and their son, William, and daughter, Airdrie. He is Christian, and in many interviews has expressed his devout faith.
	Whiskey Man: The only alcoholic beverage he will consume is whiskey.
	Author: Grylls' first book titled Facing Up, went into the UK top 10 best-seller list, and was launched in the USA titled, The Kid Who Climbed Everest.
	Climbed the Impossible: Grylls first entered the record books in 1997 by being the youngest Briton to summit Ama Dablam in the Himalayas, a peak famously described by Sir Edmund Hillary as "unclimbable".
	Jetski Circumnavigation: In 2000 Grylls led the first team to circumnavigate the UK on personal watercraft, to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Lifeboats. Three years later he led a team of five British men on the first unassisted crossing of the north Atlantic Arctic Ocean, in an open rigid inflatable boat. The team was hampered by giant waves, icebergs and storms.
	Paragliding: In 2005 Grylls led the first team ever to attempt to paramotor over the remote jungle plateaux of the Angel Falls in Venezuela. The team was attempting to reach the highest, most remote high tepuis, made famous by Conan Doyle's Lost World.
	Higher than Everest: In 2007 Grylls broke a new world record by flying a petrol-powered paraglider over the Himalayas, higher than Mount Everest. He had to cope with temperatures of -60C and dangerously low oxygen levels to reach 29,500 feet, almost 10,000 feet higher than the previous record of 20,019 feet. The expedition raised $1 million for the charity Global Angels. Grylls described the expedition, filmed for a 2 hour film for Discovery Channel worldwide as well as Channel 4 in the UK, as "the hairiest, most frightening thing" he had ever done.
	Dinner at Heights: Alongside balloonist and mountaineer David Hempleman-Adams, Bear Grylls created a world record for the highest ever open-air formal dinner party, which they did under a hot air balloon at 25,000 feet, dressed in full mess kit and oxygen masks. This was in aid of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Charity.

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Comments: I think the name "Bear" is a little too appropriate. Comment by: buccicone.2