Bear Grylls, Full name Edward Michael Bear Grylls was born on  7 June 1974, in  Donaghadee , Northern Ireland. His father Micheal grylls was a politician and his mother Sara grylls and his sister’s name Lara Fawcett. His sister gave him the nickname Bear.

Grylls grew up in Ireland until the age of four. Now he is a British adventure, writer and television presenter. He is widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild (2006–2011), originally titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls for the United Kingdom release. 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 at age 35. He loves adventure from early childhood. He learned boating and mountaineering in his childhood. At the age of eight he was a cab scout, at the same age his father gave him a picture of mount Everest. Then he has been dreaming of mount everest. In his childhood he learned sky diving and martial arts too.

One day this little boy becoming world’s most popular adventurous man who knows that. He completed his education from Eaton House, Ludgrove School and Eton College, where he helped start its first mountaineering club. He studied Spanish and German at the University of West of England and at Birkbeck, University of London, where he graduated with a 2:2 bachelor’s degree, obtained part-time, in Hispanic studies in 2002.

After completed his study he joined army. In this time he learned the strategies to survive in various hostile situations. He prove that its possible to win in any unfavorable environment if it is inordinate willpower. This man has not learned to lose in any environment. But at one time Grylls was thrown out of the scandal. He faced a parachute accident in 1996.

Everyone thought Grylls could never walk on his own feet. Grylls retire from the army because the doctor said that he was unable to walk. But he didn’t believe that. He showed his doctor and science was wrong and he walked on his foot. This is bear grllys and that’s why he is different from everyone.

More than one year Grylls was away from everything after the parachute accident. He kept trying to heal himself and then he had a childhood wish again. Grylls took the peak of mount Everest in may of 1998 in the 18 months of his parachute accident and he was the one who summed Everest at the youngest age. To prepare for climbing at such high altitudes in the Himalayas in 1997 bear grylls became the youngest Briton to climb Ama Dablam, a peak once described by Sir Edmund Hillary as unclimbable. His fathers gift him a everests poster, while he was going to Everest he took that poster with him. In 2001 his father died and he lost his idol.

Maybe Bear grylls never thought that he could be the idol of anothers life. After one year of Everest summit he played a tv commercial, then he became popular by adventurous show. Many people think that there are many people like the Bear. He just popular for Man Vs Wild show. But not at all, there is something in Bear that helps him to be different from everyone. Bear Grylls is also a member of Britains special Air force.

In 2005, he made an incredible record of having dinner with a parachute from 24500 feet high. It is believed that its so hard to find a sky diver like Bear. He is the best survivalist in the world. He has the power to survive all the terrible places of the world such as Sahara Desert, Antartika and Amazon. Bear grylls takes lots of risk for his show man vs wild.

If he understand the depth of the water he can jump over 50 meters. He jumped from many high waterfalls. He passed ocean many time by raft made by bamboo or plastic bottles. He climbs many high mountain for his show without any professional climbing equipment. He enter many ice cave without security equipment. He has been able to swim in ice cold water by making dress of various animals skin.

Grylls knows many strategies to survive in a remote environment. His courage doesn’t compare to anyones courage. What to say about his food he is the only person on earth who has taste almost every creatures liver except human. He has eaten a lot of food which is possible only through him such as urine and he always consumes any insects. But for these he had to get into much debate but he don’t care about these because he is one of the best figures in the world. There is no lack of fans around the world. Worlds most powerful president Barack Obama is also his huge fan. Barak Obama is a partner with bear grylls in a show called Running wild. In that show Barak Obama ate half bear eating Salmon fish and he also did what bear grylls do to survive. As he participated this show he realized that natural environment is changing very fast and he asked everyone to come forward to protect the environment.

Bear grylls is also a good writer. He wrote 15 books. Bears autobiography is one of the bestseller in the world. The name of the book is Mud, sweat and tears. The book won the award from china in 2010. Even in Britains Sunday times market the book was at number one on the list of the list of the worlds best seller. Grylls first book is facing up and that is the most selling book in USA.

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Writer: Tanzim Hasan Khan