Question 261

After leaving school, X spent some months with the Indian Army and spent a few months hiking in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal. From 1994 to 1997, X served in the United Kingdom Special Forces Reserve, with 21 Regiment Special Air Service, 21 SAS(R), as a trooper, survival instructor and Patrol Medic .X served in North Africa twice. X service in the SAS ended in 1997 as a result of a free fall parachuting accident he suffered the previous year in Kenya. X's canopy ripped at 1600 feet (500 m), partially opening, causing him to fall and land on his parachute pack on his back, which partially crushed three vertebrae. X later said, "I should have cut the main parachute and gone to the reserve but thought there was time to resolve the problem". X spent the next 18 months in and out of military rehabilitation at Headley Court before being discharged and directing his efforts into trying to get well enough to fulfil his childhood dream of climbing Mount Everest.X was awarded the honorary rank of Lieutenant Commander in the UK's Royal Naval Reserve for services to charity and human endeavour.Today, X sometimes works as a professional motivational speaker and trainer. X entered first made an appearance in an advertisement for Sure deodorant, featuring his ascent
of Mount Everest.
Tell me who x is and connect him to the picture below.


Answer:William "Bear" Grylls. A really lame connect between Teddy Roosevelt's bear and William Grylls.