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                                                                       Bear Grylls
                                                                            Part 1

          Edward Michael ''Bear'' Grylls is a British adventurer, writer and television presenter from Northern Ireland. He is widely known for this television series Man vs. Wild, originally titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls for the United Kingdom release. Grylls are also involved in the number of wilderness survival television series in the UK and US. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngest ever chief scout at the age 35.

Personal Life
      Grylls was born in Donaghadee,Country Down,Northern Ireland. He grew up in Donaghadee until the age of four, when his family moved to Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.
He is the son of conservative politician Sir Michael Grylls, who was implicated in the cash-for-question affair, and Sarah, Lady Grylls. Lady Grylls is the daughter of politician Patricia Ford briefly an Ulster Unionist Party MP, and cricketer and businessman Neville Ford. Grylls has one sibling, an elder sister, Lara Fawcett an interior public relations agent and cardio-tennis coach, who gave him the nick name 'Bear' when he was a week old.
From an early age, he learn to climb and sail with his father who was a member of the prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron. As a teenager, he learn to skydive and earned a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate, He speak English,Spanish and French. He is Anglican and has described his faith as the ''backbone'' in his life.
Grylls married Shara Cannings Kinght in 2000.
In august 2015, it was reported that Grylls had deserted his young son, Jesse, on Saint Tudwal's Island along the North Wales coast, as the tide approached, leaving him to be rescued by the RNLI. The RNLI later criticised  him for the stunt, saying it's crew ''had not appreciated'' that a child would be involved.

Education
        Grylls was educated as Eaton House, Ludgrove School and Eton Collage where he helped start it's first mountaineering club. He studied Spanish and German at the University of West of England and at Birkbeck, University of London, where he graduated with a 2:2 bachelor's degree, obtained part-time, in Hispanic study in 2002.

Military Service
          After leaving school, Grylls briefly considered joining the Indian Army and hiked in the Himalayan Mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal. Form 1994–1997, he served in the British Army with 21 SAS.
In 1996, Grylls suffered a freefall parachuting accident in Zambia when his parachute failed to inflate. In 2004 Grylls was previously awarded the honorary rank of lieutenant commander in the Royal Naval Reserved; and in 2013 he was awarded the honorary rank lieutenant colonel in the the Royal Marines Reserves.
      On 16 May 1998, Grylls achieved his childhood dream of climbing to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, 18 months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident. The record has since been surpassed by Jake Meyer and then Rob Gauntlett who summitted at age 19. To prepare at for climbing at such high altitude in the Himalayas, in 1997, Grylls became the youngest Briton to climb Ama Dablam, a peak once described by Sir Edmund Hillary as ''unclimbable''.

Circumnavigation of the UK
in 2000 Grylls led the team to circumnavigate the British Isles on jet skis,
Crossing the North Atlantic

Three year later, he led a  team of five, including his childhood friend, SAS colleague , and Mount Everest climbing partner Mick Crosthwaite, on an unassisted crossing of the North Atlantic Ocean, in an open rigid inflatable boat. Grylls and his team traveled in an eleven meter long boat an encountered force 8 gale winds with breaking over the boat while passing through iceberg in their journey from Halifax, Nova Scotia to John o' Groats, Scotland.

Dinner Party at Altitude  

In 2005, alongside the balloonist and  mountaineer David Hempleman-Adams and Lieutenant Commander Alan Veal, Leader of the Royal Navy Freefall Parachute Display Team, Grylls created a world record for the highest open air formal dinner party, Which they did under a hot air balloon at, dressed in full mess dress and oxygen mask. To train for the event, he made over 200 parachute jumps this event was in aid of the Duck of Edinburgh's Award and the Prince's Trust.



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