Grin and Bear it

From: The Scotsman | Date: June 7, 2003| Author: Emily Partridge | Copyright information

Bear Grylls insists that one of his favourite pastimes is taking a hot bath "with lots of ducks and bubbles", but somehow this doesn't wash. This is the person who, in 1998, entered the record books for being the youngest person to reach the summit of Everest, aged 23. An achievement in itself, but made even more extraordinary for the fact that two years previously, he had had a near-fatal parachute accident while in Africa with the SAS, leaving him with a back broken in three places that too...

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