GQ&A: Bear Grylls (GQ – 06/27/2011)
“You don’t often see Bear Grylls in a suit,” jokes the survival expert with a sheepish grin. It’s early evening in the screening room of London’s Mayfair Hotel, and the oft-grubby adventurer has just introduced the latest episode of Born Survivor, his Discovery Channel series that has been seen by an estimated one billion people worldwide. Which means that a billion people have seen Bear Grylls sleep inside animal carcasses, traverse the world’s toughest terrain, and – most famously – drink his own urine. But is he tough enough to survive our GQ&A covering Cameron Diaz, beating Everest and his best barbecue recipe?