He is an Honorary Colonel to the Royal Marines Commandos, the youngest ever UK Chief Scout, and the first ever Chief Ambassador to the World Scout Organization, representing a global family of some fifty million Scouts.

His autobiography, Mud Sweat and Tears, spent fifteen weeks at Number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list and he has written over ninety books, selling in excess of nineteen million copies worldwide. Since then he has gone on to host more extreme adventure TV shows across more global networks than anyone else in history, including Running Wild with Bear Grylls and the Emmy Award-nominated interactive Netflix show You vs. Wild, which became one of the most-watched shows on the planet, reaching an estimated 1.2 billion viewers. He first hosted the hit Discovery Channel series Man vs. Grylls recovered and went on to become one of the youngest climbers ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Readers are calling Mud, Sweat and Tears:īEAR GRYLLS spent three years as a Trooper with 21 SAS Regiment, before breaking his back in a free-fall parachuting accident in Africa. Known and admired by millions, Bear Grylls has survived where few would dare to go. But this was just the beginning of his many extraordinary adventures. However, only eighteen months later Bear became one of the youngest ever climbers to scale Everest, aged only twenty-three. It was touch and go whether he would ever walk again.

Then, in a horrific free-fall parachuting accident, Bear broke his back in three places. On returning home, he embarked upon the notoriously gruelling selection course for the British Special Forces to join 21 SAS - a journey that was to push him to the very limits of physical and mental endurance. As a teenager he found identity and purpose through both mountaineering and martial arts, which led the young adventurer to the foothills of the mighty Himalaya and a grandmaster's karate training camp in Japan. Growing up on the Isle of Wight, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. Gripping, moving and wildly exhilarating, Mud, Sweat and Tears is a must-read for adrenalin junkies and armchair adventurers alike.īear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure. 'Well told, personable, fast-paced, and undoubtedly a fascinating read' Daily Telegraph

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