Mud, Sweat, and Tears by Bear Grylls

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#1 Sunday Times (London) Bestseller The adventurer and mega-popular star of the hit survival series Man Vs. Wild takes fans to the wildest place yet-inside his own life "Bear Gryllis is a veritable superhero. ... The former UK Special Forces paratrooper has braved the world's harshest environments." Hampton Sides, Outside magazine "Quite possibly one of the craziest men on the planet."-Mail on Sunday (UK) "I had a hunger to push myself, and I found out... more

#1 Sunday Times (London) Bestseller The adventurer and mega-popular star of the hit survival series Man Vs. Wild takes fans to the wildest place yet-inside his own life "Bear Gryllis is a veritable superhero. ... The former UK Special Forces paratrooper has braved the world's harshest environments." Hampton Sides, Outside magazine "Quite possibly one of the craziest men on the planet."-Mail on Sunday (UK) "I had a hunger to push myself, and I found out that I could dig very deep when I needed to. I don't really know where or how this hunger came about, but I had it. I call it the 'fire'. Maybe it was trying to seek an identity in this big world. Maybe it was frustration from my younger years. I don't really know; but I realized that I was beginning to be able to do stuff that no one else at school could do, and it felt good."-from Mud, Sweat, and TearsBear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on Britain's Isle of Wight, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. Inevitably, it wasn't long before Bear was leading out-of-bounds night-climbing missions at Eton, the elite English boarding school he attended. As a teenager, he found identity and purpose through both mountaineering and martial arts, which led the young adventurer to the foothills of the mighty Himalaya and a grandmaster's karate training camp in Japan. On returning home, he embarked upon the notoriously grueling selection course for the British Special Forces to join SAS-a journey that was to push him to the very limits of physical and mental endurance. Then, in a horrific free-fall parachuting accident in Africa, Bear broke his back in three places. It was unclear whether he would ever walk again. However, only eighteen months later and defying doctors' expectations, Bear became one of the youngest climbers ever to scale Everest, aged only twenty-three. But this was just the beginning of his many extraordinary adventures . . . Known and admired by millions as the star of the adventure series Man Vs. Wild, Bear Grylls has survived where few would dare to go. Now, for the first time, Bear tells the story of his action-packed life. Gripping, moving and wildly exhilarating, Mud, Sweat, and Tears is a must-read for adrenalin junkies and armchair adventurers alike. less

About Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls's prime-time television adventure series Man Vs. Wild is one of the most watched shows on the planet, reaching an estimated 1.2 billion viewers in... more

Bear Grylls's prime-time television adventure series Man Vs. Wild is one of the most watched shows on the planet, reaching an estimated 1.2 billion viewers in over 180 countries. Educated at Eton, Bear is a former member of the UK Special Forces (SAS) and was made an honorary Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy. He continues to lead record-breaking expeditions to the world's extremes, which have raised over £1.5 million for children's charities. He lives with his wife, Shara, and their three sons, Jesse, Marmaduke, and Huckleberry, on a Dutch barge in London and on a small remote island off the coast of Wales. less