There is some dispute over whether he was the youngest Briton to have done so, as he was preceded by James Allen, a climber holding dual Australian and British citizenship, who reached the summit in 1995 at age 22. At 23, he was at the time among the youngest people to have achieved this feat. On, Grylls achieved his childhood dream of climbing to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, 18 months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident. Then in 2013 he was awarded the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve, and promoted to Honorary Colonel in June 2021. In 2004, Grylls was awarded the honorary rank of lieutenant commander in the Royal Naval Reserve.
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His time in the SAS ended as the result of a free fall parachuting accident in Kenya in 1996 his parachute failed to open, causing him to break three vertebrae.
Becoming a survival instructor, he was twice posted to North Africa. From 1994–1997, he served in the Territorial Army with 21 SAS as a trooper trained in, amongst other things, unarmed combat, desert and winter warfare, survival, climbing, parachuting, and explosives. Military serviceĪfter leaving school, Grylls briefly hiked in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal. He studied Spanish and German at the University of the West of England, Bristol and at Birkbeck College, where he graduated with a 2:2 bachelor's degree, obtained part-time, in Hispanic studies in 2002. Grylls was educated at Eaton House, Ludgrove School and Eton College, where he helped start its first mountaineering club. Jesse was unharmed, though the RNLI later criticized him for the stunt, saying its crew "had not appreciated" that a child would be involved. In August 2015, Grylls left his 11 year-old son Jesse on Saint Tudwal's Island along the North Wales coast, as the tide approached, leaving him to be rescued by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) as part of their weekly practice missions. They have three sons named Jesse (born 2003), Marmaduke (born 2006) and Huckleberry (born 2009). Grylls married Shara Cannings Knight in 2000. He's all around us, if we're just still enough to listen." He is an Anglican, and has described his Christian faith as the "backbone" in his life: "You can't keep God out. As a teenager, he learned to skydive and earned a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate. įrom an early age, he learned to climb and sail with his father, who was a member of the prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron. Grylls has one sibling, an elder sister, Lara Fawcett, who gave him the nickname 'Bear' when he was a week old. He is the son of Conservative politician Sir Michael Grylls and his wife Sarah "Sally" ( née Ford). He grew up in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland until the age of four, when his family moved to Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. From a family with strong cricketing background, his grandfather Neville Ford and great-great-grandfather William Augustus Ford, were both first-class cricketers. 6.2 Term as Chief Scout of the Scout AssociationĮdward Michael Grylls was born in London on 7 June 1974.6.1 Designation of Chief Ambassador of World Scouting.5.2.14 World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji.
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