Year after year, the list of victims who try to climb Mount Everest increases, for one of ten climbers ascending this mountain becomes fatal. On May 26, 1998, Bear Grylls became the youngest Britain alpinist who reached the top of Everest and returned alive. He was 23 years old. It took about 90 days to overcome the mountain, 90 days of extreme survival with the lack of oxygen in a «deadly zone» (more than 8000m.).
Bear gained popularity for the project «Man Vs Wild». It is a TV show on Discovery channel. It shows the audience how to survive in the most extreme situations. All that tests for himself survival specialist, former soldier of special mission unit Bear Grylls. Thrown into most inhospitable places of wild nature: deserts, jungles and mountains he shows how to survive.
«Man Vs Wild» obtained incredible popularity in America and became the most featured TV show collecting 1,2 billion spectators. Now the show is one of the most recognizable ones in the world’s TV-net.
The book, which accompanies the show «Born to Survive» hold out as a bestseller in Britain for 10 weeks.
In 2007 Bear Grylls became the first man to rise higher than Everest on a paramotor in Himalayas.
This is not the end of incredible and colorful life of Bear Grylls. He continues to draw attention millions of people all over the world.