Trivia

Served in the British Special Air Services (SAS).

Climbed Mount Everest.

Black Belt in Karate.

Broke his back in three places on a parachuting jump over Southern Africa.

In June 2005, Grylls broke a world record by hosting a dinner party at a table suspended below a hot air balloon at 24,500 feet.

Is an avid skydiver.

Led the first unassisted crossing of the frozen North Atlantic Ocean in an open, rigid inflatable boat.

Grylls owns an island on the Welsh coast, which includes a nature reserve, and lives on a converted barge on the River Thames with his wife Shara and their sons Jesse and Marmaduke.

He spends time as a motivational speaker.

His father died in 2001.

Third son, Huckleberry Edward Jocelyne Grylls, born January 15, 2009. He weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz.

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