Bear Grylls has said he still feels the pain of breaking his back in a parachuting accident “every day”. The adventurer and TV star, 46, went through a year of rehabilitation after fracturing three vertebrae in 1996 during an SAS training exercise that went wrong. Grylls was skydiving over Zambia at the age of 21 when his parachute failed to inflate and he landed on his pack. Sharing photos of his back and its treatment on Instagram, he wrote: “People sometimes ask me if my back ever hurts having broken it all those years ago in a parachuting accident. “PS second photo is the ice treatment I do every day that helps keep me strong inside and out!”Less than two years after the accident, Grylls reached the summit of Mount Everest.

Source: Irish Independent March 31, 2021 12:26 UTC