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 don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"
I didn't want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.
As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.
People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.
Without risk, there can be no growth.