There are probably very few people who don't know Bear Grylls, the presenter of Discovery Channel's popular TV series 'Man vs Wild'. He is also a British explorer, writer and television presenter.
Grylls was born in 1964 in England. The funny thing is that the whole world knows Grylls by name but his real name is not Edward Michael Grylls. Her only sister Lara started calling her ‘Bare’ when she was just 1 week old.
Let's find out now some unknown facts about this daring presenter:
In 1996, at the age of 23, Bear Grylls climbed Mount Everest. His fame spread all around because he conquered Everest as the youngest person. His name also rose in the Guinness Book of World Records. However, his record has been broken 4 times so far.
2 / He has worked in British Special Air Service for 3 years. From this special air service he gets training on how to jump from parachute, dive in water, survive in the jungle, fight with empty hands etc.
3 / Received a black belt in the game of bare karate.
4 / Just 1 year before conquering Everest, Bare had an accident while jumping with a parachute. In this incident, 3 bones of his spine were broken.
5 / Bayer has written a total of 11 books. There are 4 fiction books for children. His book, Facing Up, was one of the top ten bestsellers in Britain. The book was later published in the United States as The Kid Who Climbed Mount Everest.
6 / He first appeared on TV when a deodorant company made an advertisement for him about Bayer's conquest of Mount Everest.
7 / His first TV show was on Channel Four. The name was 'Escape to the Legion'. He then did a TV show called ‘Man vs Wild’ on Discovery Channel which had 12 episodes of 1 hour.
6 / 'Man vs Wild' takes place as the No. 1 TV show in America. It has 1.2 billion visitors in 200 countries around the world.
On 9/2008, he became the first person to fly the world's highest peak in a powered paraglider. His efforts raised 2.4 million.
10 / With Discovery Channel, he released an Xbox, PlayStation and Wei game called 'Man vs Wild'.
Rumors spread in 11/2008 that Bear Grylls and other members of his group were staying in luxury hotels instead of camping in the woods. The show has seemed a bit unfocused in recent episodes, but the show has seemed a bit unfocused in recent episodes.
12 / Grylls has eaten a lot of weird things as part of his show, such as the frozen eyes of a Tibetan skinny cow, the camel's stomach juice, live snakes, large insect eggs the size of a hand, and huge spiders.
13 / As a child, his favorite TV show was McGuire.
On 14/2009, at the age of 35, he was appointed to the Scout Association as the youngest Chief Scout in the world.
15 / Grylls was physically injured in the accident. Notable among them are broken shoulder, amputated finger, broken elbow, broken cartilage of the knee, removal of lumbar bone etc. Besides, there is no counting how many times he has been bitten by snakes, scorpions and spiders.
16 / But even after doing so much, Bare has done his studies properly. He studied at the famous 'Eaton' College in Britain.
On 18/1996, he climbed the Ama Dabalam peak in the Himalayas as the youngest. Note that Edmund Hillary called this peak 'unclimbable'.
16 / It took him only 90 days to conquer Mount Everest.
19 / Bare Grylls is married and has two children. His son has also become like a father. At just 7 years old, he rescues a girl who is drowning in a swimming pool.
