When I received an e-mail saying “This guy can do anything,” I didn’t know what to expect. Then I realized the linked article, Briton paraglides over Mt. Everest, was about Bear Grylls, host of Man vs. Wild:
Bear Grylls, 32, flew 140 meters (460 feet) above the world’s highest peak at 8,850 meters (29,035 feet) on Monday after taking off on a powered paraglider from a village in the Khumbhu region where Everest is located, Explore Himalaya agency said Friday.
“Bear” first made his name as a mountain climber:
Bear Grylls first entered the record books in 1997 by being the youngest Briton to summit Ama Dablam in the Himalayas, a peak famously described by Sir Edmund Hillary as ‘unclimbable’. Then one year later at only 23 years old Bear Grylls gained another record when he became the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest and come down alive. Both these achievements are made even more remarkable by the fact that a mere two years earlier he almost severed his spinal cord in a near fatal parachuting accident in Africa.