Biography of Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls (birth name: Edward Michael Grylls) is a fearless traveler, presenter of fascinating and educational television programs about expeditions to the most remote corners of the planet, telling about methods of overcoming phobias and oneself in the wild, in conditions of man-made disasters, accidents and various disasters. .
Pictured: Bear Grylls
Extreme expert - the youngest conqueror of Everest among his compatriots (at 23 years old) and the head of the Scout Association of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories (at 35 years old), a former soldier of the Special Air Service SAS, a survival instructor, a participant in the television projects "Mission Everest" ”, “It couldn’t have been worse”, “Test of fear”, “Survive at any cost”, “Bear’s Wild Weekend”, “In the footsteps of the survivors”, etc., author of popular books (“Guide to Life”, “Dirt, Sweat and Tears", "Over the Burning Abyss", "Ghosts of the Lost Flight", "The Devil's Sanctuary").
It couldn't have been worse (Worst-Сase Sсenario). Survival in the city with Bear Grylls
“ It Couldn’t Be Worse ” (Worst Case Scenario) is an adventure television show on the Discovery channel, in which Bear Grylls, the host of the popular show “Survive at Any Cost,” shows how to behave in the event of various natural disasters, man-made disasters, accidents and other non-standard situations in civilization. In this show, Bear uses the skills he acquired while serving in the SAS: self-defense, extreme driving, parkour, urban survival and wilderness survival.
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Season 1
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- It couldn't be worse - S01E01 - Burning Vehicle, Boating Accident (Burning Vehicle/Boating Assident) Bear Grylls shows how to survive in dangerous situations. In this episode, he climbs out of a burning car and saves another driver, and then pulls two people out of the water.
- It Couldn't Be Worse - S01E02 - Power Lines, Dog Attack Bear helps a driver who crashed into a power pole, but when a wire falls on their car, things get complicated. Then he must outsmart two angry dogs.
- It couldn't be worse - S01E03 - Sinking Car, Encounter with a Snake (Sinking Car/Rattlesnake Encounter) Bear Grylls finds himself in deadly situations. In this episode, he gets out of a sinking car. He also encounters a rattlesnake bite victim.
- It couldn't be worse - S01E04 - Earthquake EsсapeWatch the program based on the popular book series. Survival expert Bear Grylls escapes from a house damaged by an earthquake.
- It Couldn't Be Worse - S01E05 - Faulty Brakes. Human Attack (Car Brakes Fail/Physical Attack) Bear Grylls shows how to survive in new dangerous situations. He demonstrates how to stop a car whose brakes have failed and how to evade an attacker.
- It Couldn't Be Worse - S01E06 - Trapped in Extreme Cold Survival expert Bear Grylls shows you how to survive if you suddenly find yourself in extreme cold, like a refrigerator.
- It Couldn't Be Worse - S01E07 - Crash in the Desert. Tarantula (Desert Breakdown/Tarantula) In this episode, Bear's car crashes in the middle of the desert. Bear then notices a tarantula crawling on him.
- It Couldn't Be Worse - S01E08 - Elevator Falls. In the Dark (Elevator Plunge/Blackout) Bear Grylls shows how to survive in dangerous situations. He demonstrates how to avoid being hit in a falling elevator and how to navigate in pitch darkness.
- It Couldn't Be Worse - S01E09 - Falling Off a Bike. Mountain Bike Disaster/Run For Your Life Survival expert Bear Grylls shows you how to survive if you break your leg in the woods, and how to outwit your attacker and escape from him.
- It couldn't be worse - S01E10 - Roughness on the road. Panic in the Crowd (Road Rage/Panicked Crowd Stampede) Survival expert Bear Grylls encounters a rude driver and shows how to get out of such a situation. He and his friend then escape from the nightclub where the fire started.
- It Couldn't Be Worse - S01E11 - Gas Leak. Man on Fire (Toxic Gas Leak/Man on Fire) Bear Grylls shows how to create an escape room in your home to protect yourself from poisonous gas. A man catches fire while barbecuing. Bear rushes to the rescue.
- It Couldn't Be Worse - S01E12 - Assault in the House. Home Break In/Terror Threat Bear Grylls shows you how to survive dangerous situations. First he must get out of the house where the robbers broke into. Then he has to escape the exploding building.
Official trailer for “Worst Case Scenario”
Childhood and youth
The future conqueror of the world's elements, whose record-breaking achievements were repeatedly included in the Guinness Book of Records, was born on June 7, 1974 in the town of Donaghadee, Northern Ireland. His mother Sarah (nee Ford) kept house, raised children and helped her husband Michael in his political career. The head of the family was a Conservative parliamentarian, a retired officer of the Royal Marines, a lover of horse riding, risky trips to sea, hiking in forests and mountains, who enthusiastically introduced his young son and eldest (by 8 years) daughter Lara to his hobbies. By the way, it was she who gave him the nickname Bear (“bear” - bear) in the first week of his brother’s life. The girl considered him her living toy, like a teddy bear.
Bear Grylls with his sister as a child
When the boy was 4 years old, the family moved to the east coast of the Isle of Wight to the town of Bembridge. Having been infected with a love of extreme sports from his father since childhood, the restless son not only constantly played pranks, but also splashed out his accumulated energy during classes in various sections. He was interested in sailing, rock climbing, and martial arts (he earned a black belt in karate). He received his education at the Ludgrove boarding school, at Eton College, and then at the University of London, where he studied French, German and Spanish.
Bear Grylls in his youth
From 1994 to 1997 He served in the SAS (Special Air Service) special forces unit, visited India and Africa, where, along with military training, he learned new secrets of survival in extreme conditions. In 1996 in Zambia, as a result of an unsuccessful parachute jump, he suffered serious damage to his spine in three places. For more than a year, the paratrooper was paralyzed in a hospital bed, but, fortunately, was able to recover and get back on his feet.
A series of victories and adventures
In 1997, the restless Briton began preparing to climb Everest. To this end, he trained intensively in Scotland, known for its mountainous terrain, then climbed the Himalayan peak of Ama Dablam, considered practically inaccessible. The ascent was not easy and was not without injuries and shocks - making his way through a snowstorm and fog, he fell into a crevice of one of the glaciers, hitting his head.
Extreme Bear Grylls in his youth
A year later, showing extraordinary courage, courage, patience and will, the 23-year-old adventurer was able to fulfill his long-standing dream - conquering the Top of the World, despite the dangers of frostbite, snow blindness, oxygen starvation, dehydration and other hardships of mountaineering. His record achievement was recorded in the Guinness Book. Bear Grylls: Mission Everest In 2000, a daredevil with a clear philosophy of life, in the company of like-minded people, sailed around the British Isles in a month to raise money for the Royal Institute of Water Rescue. In 2003, as part of a group of five satellites, he was the first in history to cross the North Atlantic Ocean in an inflatable boat. The route ran from the Canadian port of Halifax to the northernmost Scottish point of John O'Groats. Having overcome force eight storms with wave heights of up to 7.5 meters and wind speeds of over 20 meters per second, dangerous encounters with icebergs and terrifying cold, all the heroes reached their destination. For this extreme voyage, Bear was awarded the rank of rear admiral and subsequently described his unique experience in the book “Meeting with the Ice Ocean.”
Bear Grylls in the series "Survive at Any Cost"
Grylls' next risky venture was a paragliding flight in 2005 over the highest (about one kilometer) Angel Falls in the tropical forests of Venezuela. In the same year, he set a world record - he held a dinner party at the highest altitude from the ground (7.62 km), inviting two daredevil friends to a table suspended under a balloon.
In 2007, Grylls performed another incredible act - a paramotor flight over the dangerous and beautiful mountain system of the Himalayas. He rose above Chomolungma to a height of 8.99 km, surpassing the previous record by 3.05 km, in conditions of lack of oxygen, strong winds and temperatures below 60 degrees. He intended to fly over Everest itself, but did not receive permission from the Chinese authorities and limited himself to climbing from the southern side of this highest peak.
In 2007, Grylls made a paramotor flight over the Himalaya mountain range.
Among the exploits of the traveler was a descent into the mouth of an active Guatemalan volcano, despite poisonous gases and unbearable heat, a trip on boats 4 thousand km long from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean in order to attract public attention to the threat of global warming, a record-long (more than an hour) fall in a wind tunnel, sleeping in a gutted camel carcass (this is how he protected himself from a sandstorm), eating insects, animal waste, and other disgusting substances. Survive at any cost. Siberia At the same time, the brave and active Briton was tirelessly involved in charity work, donating funds to the organizations “SSAFA Forces Help”, “Global Angels”, “Hope and Homes for Children”, etc., and became known as a motivational speaker, author of adventure books, and scout leader movements.
Television projects
The famous extreme sportsman has been a guest on entertainment and educational television programs more than once, given interviews and, according to his wife Shara, three times rejected offers to try himself as a presenter before agreeing to participate in the series “Survive at any Cost” on the Discovery Channel. As a result, the show became one of the channel’s highest-rated and longest-running projects.
Bear Grylls in the "Island" project
According to the script, Bear was sent to the most dangerous places on the planet, where, overcoming cold, heat, dense forests, great heights and distances, he introduced viewers to ways of obtaining food, water, building housing, navigating the terrain, and warned against possible fatal mistakes.
The famous extreme sportsman has been a guest on entertainment and educational television programs more than once
Other television projects with the participation of the irrepressible adventurer were also successful, including “Chronicle of the Conquest of Everest”, “Special Menu from Bear Grylls”, “Bear’s Wild Weekend”, as well as “Star Survival with Bear Grylls”, where his fortitude and ability to stay in Famous people from the world of sports and show business experienced living in wild but amazingly picturesque places with him.
Description
The program describes behavior and survival techniques during natural disasters, man-made disasters, accidents and other non-standard situations: accidents, fires, animal attacks, rescuing other people, etc.
The upcoming release of the new program was announced in January 2010. Bear Grylls, by this time well known as the host of Survive at All Costs, was originally slated to star in six episodes showing how one can survive in potentially life-threatening situations through expert knowledge alone. In the first episodes, Grylls had to escape from a burning skyscraper, repel an attack by a shark and a cougar, escape from a car that had fallen into the water or was rolling downhill with the brakes failing, get out of a hole on a frozen lake and fall down a flight of stairs without injury[1]. The themes of the program coincided with the themes of the books from the best-selling book series of the same name, and the episodes themselves were filmed in the style of feature films with Grylls in the title role.[2] The author of the book series “It Couldn’t Get Worse,” David Borgenicht, also became a consultant for the program on the Discovery Channel[3].
Personal life of Bear Grylls
The conqueror of mountain peaks, hot deserts, oceans and impenetrable jungles is married to his peer Shara Cannings-Knight, the author of a number of inspiring books about the secrets of a happy married life.
Bear Grylls and his wife Shara
He met her in Scotland, during the period of preparation for climbing Everest, and proposed upon his return, in Spain, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. When, after skinny dipping, they got ashore, he got down on one knee, uttered only half of the prepared phrase, was overturned by a wave, which made the girl laugh, but still received consent.
They have three sons - Jesse (born in 2003), Marmaduke (2006) and Huckleberry (2009). The family lives in London on a floating barge on the Thames and owns the island of St. Tudwal on the Welsh coast.
Bear Grylls with his wife and children
Bear, an Anglican, considers his faith a “bastion of support” during his many expeditions and the basis of his life. He knows how and loves to play the piano, spend weekends on his island, ride an ATV with his children and drive around in a Land Rover.
Bear Grylls now
The survival expert does not rest on his laurels, continues to challenge danger, works on new television projects and books, participates in scouting competitions, and writes speeches (for churches and schools - free of charge). In 2014, he became a Land Rover ambassador for the brand's advertising campaigns around the world. Cars of this brand, according to the extreme sportsman, have never let him down, no matter where he was - in the mountains, in deserts, in impenetrable forests or snow. He is also the “face” of his own line of clothing for travel and extreme recreation, “Bear Grylls by Craghoppers,” created in collaboration with the British brand.
Criticism
Despite the fact that both the source books and the show based on them are devoted to extreme situations that are possible in real life, Guardian critic John Grace, reviewing the collection of episodes released on DVD, suggests treating “Could Not Happen Worse” as a sitcom , mocking both some things that are self-evident from his point of view, and advice that has little to do with reality (“if you’re stuck in the freezer, wrap yourself in plastic wrap and eat raw eggs”). In general, according to Grace, “it couldn’t get any worse” if the reader had to watch all the episodes of the program in a row[5]. Other critics compared “It Couldn’t Get Worse” with Grylls’ more popular show “Survive at Any Cost”, drawing conclusions that were not in favor of the new program, although the reason for the criticism could be different - there could be both a lack of realism[6] and a lack of practicality in the advice given (despite the fact that the realism of the situations was assessed as higher than in the parallel program)[7].
