S1 E16: Bear Grylls: Breaking my back made me face my fears
Big Fish with Spencer Matthews
Global
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Before Bear Grylls climbed mountains, he needed to learn how to climb the stairs again after breaking his back in three places. In this bonus episode he reveals how he built himself back up after catastrophic injury, plus why he was so inspired to produce Spencer's film Finding Michael.
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| 0:32.3 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:36.1 | I broke my back in a freefall accident. |
| 0:38.5 | Definitely dark time for me. |
| 0:40.1 | The doctor definitely was saying, |
| 0:41.8 | you're not going to ever jump again. |
| 0:43.2 | And if you can walk without a limp, |
| 0:44.8 | consider yourself super lucky. |
| 0:51.7 | Hi, I'm Spencer Matthews and welcome to Big Fish. |
| 0:54.8 | Join me each week as I sit down with famous CEOs, fantastic entrepreneurs, incredible designers and other famous faces to discuss what it takes to be the best. |
| 1:07.8 | Welcome to this bonus episode of Big Fish with me, Spencer Matthews. Today I'm joined by an adventurer, |
| 1:14.1 | a survival expert, and a man who I'm proud to call a true friend. He climbed Mount Everest at 23, |
| 1:20.9 | traversed the Arctic and antarctic, and survived on everything from live insects to his own urine. |
| 1:25.4 | He's the author of numerous books, the star of multiple TV shows, and he's also a successful |
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