- Born
- Birth nameEdward Michael Bear Grylls
- Height1.82 m
- Bear Grylls was born on June 7, 1974 in Isle of Wight, England, UK. He is a producer and writer, known for Arthur the King (2024), You vs. Wild (2019) and You vs. Wild: Gardons la tête froide (2021). He has been married to Shara Cannings-Knight since January 19, 2000. They have three children.
- SpouseShara Cannings-Knight(January 19, 2000 - present) (3 children)
- Children
- Broke his back in three places on a parachuting jump over Southern Africa.
- Grylls owns an island on the Welsh coast, which includes a nature reserve. He lives on a 100-year-old barge, converted to a houseboat, on the River Thames in London...along with his wife Shara, plus their sons Jesse and Marmaduke.
- Led the first unassisted crossing of the frozen North Atlantic Ocean in an open, rigid inflatable boat.
- Black Belt in Karate.
- In June 2005, Grylls broke a world record by hosting a dinner party at a table suspended below a hot air balloon at 24,500 feet.
- Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right'. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
- I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
- "I remember collapsing to my knees and just crying and crying inside my mask as all those emotions from so long began to flow. Neil and myself, with our oxygen off, just hugged. It is an extraordinary place and you see the curvature of the earth at the edges and at 7.22am we watched as the dawn came up over all the land of Tibet 20,000 ft below." - On Climbing Everest.
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