Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls is a British adventurer, television presenter and former SAS trooper, born on 7 June 1974 in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland. He learned to climb as a child and helped start the mountaineering club at Eton College. On 16 May 1998 he reached the summit of Mount Everest, fulfilling a childhood dream eighteen months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident, and he was then among the youngest people to have done so. In 1997 he had become the youngest Briton to climb Ama Dablam. He later became widely known for survival television series and served as Chief Scout from 2009 to 2024.