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
You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.
Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
Sometimes an ember is all we need.
Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn't going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It's all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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.
Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
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.
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!"
As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.
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.