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Bear Grylls has dangled from helicopters over Arctic ice fields, crossed shark-infested waters and scaled the world’s highest peaks. But, according to the British adventurer, the “hardest and best thing” he’s ever done wasn’t surviving the wild, it was writing The Greatest Story Ever Told, a book about Jesus.
“This is the hardest and best thing I’ve ever done,” the 51-year-old author and TV host told The Christian Post. “I’d give up every Everest summit, every Emmy, every TV show I’ve done to have written this book.”
From “Man vs. Wild” to “Running Wild with Bear Grylls,” Grylls, a former British Special Forces soldier and Everest mountaineer, has built a global audience by showing how courage and endurance can overcome even nature’s most brutal challenges.
But his greatest burden today, he told CP, is sharing with the world the hope that can only come from a relationship with Jesus.
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“This is the hardest and best thing I’ve ever done,” the 51-year-old author and TV host told The Christian Post. “I’d give up every Everest summit, every Emmy, every TV show I’ve done to have written this book.”
From “Man vs. Wild” to “Running Wild with Bear Grylls,” Grylls, a former British Special Forces soldier and Everest mountaineer, has built a global audience by showing how courage and endurance can overcome even nature’s most brutal challenges.
But his greatest burden today, he told CP, is sharing with the world the hope that can only come from a relationship with Jesus.
Continued below.
Bear Grylls says writing about Jesus was the ‘hardest thing’ he’s ever done: ‘It’s a battleground’
Bear Grylls has dangled from helicopters over Arctic ice fields, crossed shark-infested waters and scaled the world s highest peaks But, according to the British adventurer, the hardest and best