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Mud, sweat and tears / Bear Grylls.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Corgi, 2012.Edition: Corgi books abridged edDescription: 340 pages, [24] pages of plates ; illustrations (some color); 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780552566391
  • 055256639X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 910.92 23
Summary: What would it be like to jump from an aeroplane or to climb the highest mountain in the world, to survive in extreme conditions or train for the SAS? Bear Grylls knows the answers. Read the amazing true life story of Bear, the world's most intrepid young explorer. From his childhood on the Isle of Wight, learning to sail and climb with his father, to teenage mountaineering and martial arts training, he has always sought the ultimate in adventure. After surviving the gruelling selection course for the SAS Reserves as a young man, he suffered a horrific parachuting accident and broke his back in three places. Would he ever walk again? Only eighteen months later, defying doctors expectations, Bear became one of the youngest ever climbs to scale Everest, aged only twenty-three. And this was just the beginning of his many adventures ..."
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Junior Non-Fiction Junior Non-Fiction Waimate Junior Non-Fiction Children &Young Adults Section 920 GRY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A00608892
Non-Fiction Non-Fiction Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage 910.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00619040

"Abridged for younger readers"--Back cover.

Originally published: 2011.

Includes index.

What would it be like to jump from an aeroplane or to climb the highest mountain in the world, to survive in extreme conditions or train for the SAS? Bear Grylls knows the answers. Read the amazing true life story of Bear, the world's most intrepid young explorer. From his childhood on the Isle of Wight, learning to sail and climb with his father, to teenage mountaineering and martial arts training, he has always sought the ultimate in adventure. After surviving the gruelling selection course for the SAS Reserves as a young man, he suffered a horrific parachuting accident and broke his back in three places. Would he ever walk again? Only eighteen months later, defying doctors expectations, Bear became one of the youngest ever climbs to scale Everest, aged only twenty-three. And this was just the beginning of his many adventures ..."

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