Bear Grylls





Bear Grylls

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June 07, 1974

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Every year the death toll on Mount Everest rises, and for every ten mountaineers who make it to the top, one will die. Yet at 7:22AM on May 26th 1998, Bear Grylls entered The Guinness Book of Records as the youngest, and one of only around thirty, British climbers to have successfully climbed Everest and returned alive. He was only 23 years old.

The actual ascent took Bear over ninety days of extreme weather, limited sleep and running out of oxygen deep inside the 'death zone' (above 26,000 feet). On the way down from his first reconnaissance climb, Bear was almost killed in a crevasse at 19,000 feet. The ice cracked and the ground disappeared beneath him, he was knocked unconscious and came to swinging on the end of a rope. His team-mate an...more


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ok – its been a busy time but all great.


We start shooting Get Out Alive the new NBC summer reality adventure series imminently- am a little nervous but so excited! This is our biggest show we have ever done and we have almost chosen the final 20 people that I am taking to the wild!

We have also just re-signed to Discovery and I start shooting a whole new very cool survival series for them as soo... Read more of this blog post »
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“If you risk nothing you gain nothing”
Bear Grylls

“The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me… and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different… and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it…”
Bear Grylls

“Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.”
Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears

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