Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls
Edward Michael "Bear" Gryllsis a British adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild, originally titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls in the United Kingdom. Grylls is also involved in a number of wilderness survival television series in the UK and US. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout in the UK at age 35...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionReality Star
Date of Birth7 June 1974
CityDonaghadee, Northern Ireland
I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'
What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.