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Bear Grylls

Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls (born 7 June 1974) is an English adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is best known for his television series Man vs. Wild, known as Born Survivor in the United Kingdom. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngest ever Chief Scout at the age of 35.

Bear Grylls
Born	Edward Michael Grylls 7 June 1974 (age 37) United Kingdom
Residence	A barge moored by Battersea Bridge on the River Thames, England An island on Llŷn Peninsula,Abersoch, North Wales
Occupation	Chief Scout Adventurer Explorer Author Motivational speaker Television presenter
Spouse	Shara Cannings Knight
Children	Jesse, Marmaduke, and Huckleberry
Parents	Sir Michael Grylls Lady Grylls (née Sarah Ford)

Personal Life

Grylls grew up in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland until the age of 4 when his family moved to Bembridge on theIsle of Wight. He is the son of the late Conservative party politician Sir Michael Grylls and Lady Sarah Grylls. Lady Grylls was the daughter of Patricia Ford, briefly an Ulster Unionist Party MP, and cricketer and businessman Neville Ford. Grylls has one sibling, an elder sister, Lara Fawcett, a cardio-tennis coach, who gave him the nickname 'Bear' when he was a week old.

Grylls was educated at Eaton House, Ludgrove School, Eton College, where he helped start its firstmountaineering club, and Birkbeck, University of London, where he graduated with a degree, obtained part-time, in Hispanic studies in 2002. From an early age, he learned to climb and sail from his father, who was a member of the prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron. As a teenager, he learned to skydive and earned asecond dan black belt in Shotokan karate. He practices yoga and ninjutsu. At age eight he became a Cub Scout. He speaks English, Spanish, and French. Grylls is a Christian, describing his faith as the "backbone" in his life.

Although Grylls was christened 'Edward' he has legally changed his forename to 'Bear'. Grylls married Shara Grylls (née Cannings Knight) in 2000. They have three sons: Jesse, Marmaduke, and Huckleberry (born 15 January 2009 via natural childbirth on his houseboat).

Military Service

After leaving school, Grylls considered joining the Indian Army and hiked in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim. Grylls joined the British Army and served in the part-time United Kingdom Special Forces Reserve, with 21 Regiment Special Air Service, 21 SAS(R) for 3 years until 1996.

In 1996, he suffered a freefall parachuting accident in Zambia. His canopy ripped at 4,900 metres (16,000 ft), partially opening, causing him to fall and land on his parachute pack on his back, which partially crushed three vertebrae. Grylls later said: "I should have cut the main parachute and gone to the reserve but thought there was time to resolve the problem". According to his surgeon, Grylls came "within a whisker" of being paralysed for life and at first it was questionable whether he would ever walk again. Grylls spent the next 12 months in and out of military rehabilitation at Headley Court before being discharged and directing his efforts into trying to get well enough to fulfil his childhood dream of climbing Mount Everest.

In 2004, Grylls was awarded the honorary rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve for services to charity and human endeavour.

Everest

On 16 May 1998, Grylls achieved his childhood dream (an ambition since his father gave him a picture of Everest when he was eight) and entered theGuinness Book of Records, as the youngest Briton, at 23, to summit Mount Everest, just eighteen months after injuring his back. (James Allen, an Australian-British climber who ascended Everest in 1995 with an Australian team, but who has dual citizenship, reached the summit at age 22. The feat has since been surpassed by Jake Meyer and, at age 19, by Rob Gauntlett.)

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Jeremy Wade

Jeremy John Wade (born 5 May 1956) is a British biologist, television presenter, extreme angler and writer specializing in travel and natural history. He is best known for his television series River Monsters, produced by Icon Films. He holds a special interest in freshwater and has been traveling around the world fishing for giant freshwater fish.

Jeremy Wade
Wade in New York City in 2011
Born	Jeremy John Wade May 5, 1956 (age 55) Suffolk, England, U.K.
Occupation	biologist, television presenter, extreme angler and writer

Personal Life

Jeremy Wade was brought up in rural Suffolk, England, UK, where his father was a vicar. He has a degree in zoology from Bristol University and a postgraduate teaching certificate in biological sciences from theUniversity of Kent and has worked as a secondary school biology teacher in Kent. He says he taught himself how to be a writer and has published articles on poaching, fair trade, and travel in newspapers and magazines; he is now a TV personality, explorer and extreme angler. In order to further pursue his career as a fisherman, Wade made his first trip to India in 1982. Other trips of Wade's include traveling to the Congo River and South America. He revealed in the show River Monsters: Unhooked, Revisiting the Amazon that before his first trip there he studied Portuguese three hours a day for three months to prepare; he has since worked as a Portuguese-English translator.

Jungle Hooks and River Monsters

On the episode of Jungle Hooks named "Amazonian Giant" filmed in 2002, it was shown Jeremy was struck in the chest by a 170 lb arapaima, which has caused long term heart damage. Later in the same show, the small aircraft carrying Jeremy and his film crew crashed into the jungle. The show concludes with Jeremy catching a 200lb 6 foot long arapaima fish. He mentions in the show that it was the largest fresh water fish he had ever caught. Jeremy Wade caught his biggest fish, the Zambezi Shark, in the second season of his show.

On the episode named "Hidden Predator" (Original air date: May 30, 2010) he caught a 500 lb, 9-foot, 10-inch, male bull shark. He has also caught a Hoplias aimara, which is a very aggressive fish.

Wade frequently targets and catches multiple varieties of catfish across the globe.


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