Bear Grylls Biography

Fast Facts

• Helped raise $2․4 million for the Global Angels children's charity by becoming the first man to fly a powered paraglider abover Mt․ Everest
• In 1998, he entered the Guinness Book of World Records as one of the youngest people to ever make it to the summit of Mount Everest
• Earned a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of London
• Served in the British Special Air Service for three years
• Helped start the first mountaineering club at Eton College
• Months before making his climb on Mt․ Everest, he broke his back in three places after suffering a free-fall parachuting accident in Africa
• Was the leader of the first unassisted crossing of the frozen North Atlantic Ocean