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Wild (2006–2011), originally titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls for the United Kingdom release.
Grylls is also involved in a number of wilderness survival television series in the UK and US.
In 2005, alongside the balloonist and mountaineer David Hempleman-Adams and Lieutenant Commander Alan Veal, leader of the Royal Navy Freefall Parachute Display Team, Grylls created a world record for the highest open-air formal dinner party, which they did under a hot-air balloon at 7,600 metres (25,000 ft), dressed in full mess dress and oxygen masks.
In 2007, Grylls embarked on a record-setting Parajet paramotor in Himalayas near Mount Everest.
taking about 30 days, to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
He also rowed naked in a homemade bathtub along the Thames to raise funds for a friend who lost his legs in a climbing accident.
From 1994–1997, he served in the British Army reserves with 21 SAS as a trooper trained in unarmed combat, desert and winter warfare, survival, climbing, parachuting, and explosives.
Becoming a survival instructor, he was twice posted to North Africa.
There is some dispute over whether he was the youngest Briton to have done so, as he was preceded by James Allen, a climber holding dual Australian and British citizenship, who reached the summit in 1995 at age 22.
He has written two thriller novels based around his character Will Jaeger; Ghost Flight released in 2015 Grylls entered television work with an appearance in an advertisement for Sure deodorant, featuring his ascent of Mount Everest.