Paramotoring over the Himalayas
In 2007, Grylls embarked on a record-setting Parajet paramotor in Himalayas near Mount Everest. He took off from, 8 miles south of the mountain. Grylls reported looking down on the summit during his ascent and coping with temperature of. He endured dangerously low oxygen level and eventually reached, almost higher than the previous record of. The feat was filmed for the Discovery Channel world wide as well as Channel 4 in the UK.
While Grylls initially planned to cross over Everest itself, the permit was only to fly to the south of Everest, and he did not traverse Everest out of risk of violation Chinese airspace.
Journey Antarctica, 2008
In 2008, Grylls led a team of four to climb one of the remote unclimbed peak in the world in Antarctica, to raise fund for Children's charity Global Angles to promote the use of alternative energies. During the mission the team also aimed to explore the coast of Antarctica by inflatable boat and jetski, part provided by bioethanol, and then to travel across some of the vast ice desert by wind-powered kite-ski and electric powered paramotor.
However, the expedition short after Grylls suffered a broken shoulder while kite skiing across a stretch of ice. Travelling at speed of 50 km/h, a ski catch on the ice, launching him in the air and breaking his shoulder when he came down he had to medically evacuated.
Longest Indoor Freefall
Grylls, along with the double amputee Al Hodgson and the Scotsman Freddy MacDonald, set a Guinness world record in 2008 for the longest continuous indoor freefall. the previous record was 1 hour 36 minutes by a US team. Grylls, Hodgson and MacDonald, using a vertical wind tunnel in Milton keynes, broke the record by a few seconds. The attempt was in support of charity. Global Angles.
In August 2010, Grylls led a team of five to take an ice-breaking rigid-inflatable boat through of the ice-strewn Northwest Passage. The expedition to raise awareness of the effect of global warming and to raise money for Children's Charity for Global Angles.
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