Edward Michael Grylls was born on June 7th, 1974 in Northern Ireland and was nicknamed 'Bear' by his sister Lara when he was one week old.
Bear's father, Sir Michael Grylls, was in 'Royal Yacht Squadron' and Bear got interested in adventure sports after training with him.
He turned into a cub scout when he was just 8 years old and as a teenager, he had already earned a black belt in Shotokan Karate.
Later he would go onto join 'Territorial Army' and work in the SAS for 3 years and learn skills such as demolitions, parachuting, unarmed combat, evasive driving, and trauma medic.
In 1997, he scaled the Mount Ama Dablam and became the youngest British to scale this mountain.
At the age of 23, he went in the Himalayan Mountains of India and registered his name in the 'Guinness Book of World Records' by surmounting Mount Everest on May 26th, 1998.
In 2001, his first book ‘The Kid Who Climbed Everest’ was published which narrated his journey to the mountain peak.
In 2006, ‘Man vs. Wild’ was televised which featured Grylls travelling the world in search of harsh challenges to test his survival skills.
The show went on to become the No. 1 cable show in America reaching a global audience of over 1.2 billion viewers in over 200 countries!