Bear Grylls - TV Adventurer

The youngest Britain to have climbed Everest, Bear has been supporting the RNLI for the past decade.

Bear entered The Guinness Book of Records as the youngest, and one of only around thirty, British climbers to have successfully climbed Everest and returned alive. 

Now familiar to television viewers for being parachuted in to some of the most inhospitable  deserts, jungles and mountains on earth and showing what you need to do to survive, Bear is no stranger to challenges.

In 2000, Bear led the first team to navigate the UK on jetskis, in aid of the RNLI. 

More recently he has taken part in a rescue demonstration being airlifted on to an RNLI lifeboat at Cowes Week and he has also undertaken sea survival training at the Lifeboat College in Poole, in advance of his next expedition through the North West Passage.