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"Bear Grylls: 'we're the special forces of TV' ".

^ Alistair Campbell (6 February 2015).

"The Lucy Kellaway Interview: Bear Grylls". "What are the best autobiographies for children and teenagers?". "Book review: "Mud, Sweat, and Tears," by Bear Grylls".

^ "Bear Grylls Memoir: How He Coped With Bullying".

"Bear Grylls net worth: The Island adventurer is worth THIS huge fortune – can you guess?".

^ Francesca Specter (19 January 2017).

It’s an easy read and Bears writing style is great. I enjoyed reading Mud Sweat And Tears and give it 8 out of 10. Annoyingly for you (and for me, as a holder of graduate and postgraduate degrees), that puts him in some very esteemed company. If you’re a devout cynic and only want to focus on the negative then you may get some solace by thinking of Bear Grylls as a college dropout. The fact is that Bear Grylls is just an ordinary guy, but he’s done extraordinary things. And sometimes the greatest heroism comes from those who have so little, yet do so much. The real measure is what we do with what we’ve got. Some people have accidents which they don’t recover from. He broke his shoulder in a climbing accident, and his leg on an ice-slope. He broke 3 vertebrae in his back in a parachuting accident and that ended his SAS career, but it also sparked his determination to attempt to climb Everest. But, after being invited to re-apply, he succeeded. 4 Books, 2011 - Adventure and adventurers - 409 pages.

Bear has the privilege of being Chief Scout to the UK Scout Association and as a former Scout myself I can only imagine how inspirational he is to Scouts (and people) all over the world.īear has done several other adventures and many in aid of charity: crossed the North Atlantic Artic Ocean in an open boat climbed unclimbed peaks in Antartica flew a powered paraglider above the summit of Everest lead the first expedition through the Artics Northwest Passage in a rigid inflatable boat jet-skied around Britain hosted the highest ever party suspended under a hot air balloon (at 25000 feet).īut Bear Grylls hasn’t had it all his own way. It’s good to see the first ‘F’ in Bears 5 F’s is for Family (the others are Friends, Faith, Fun, Follow your dream). He’s a committed family man and father to his 3 young sons. He’s an Etonian, he’s passed SAS Selection, he’s the youngest Briton to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, and we’ve all seen his death-defying and stomach-churning ‘antics’ on Bear Grylls Born Survivor (aka Man vs Wild). But this book Mud Sweat And Tears is Bears autobiography and it should be definitive in answering the question: Is he the real deal, or is he too good to be true? Spoiler: He’s the real deal. It was a good start in getting to know Bear Grylls the man. In my previous blog post I spoke about Bear Grylls book Facing Up which is about his attempt at climbing Mount Everest.