Bear Grylls is not a defendant in the case but an obstacle course in 2016 encouraged participants to “release the inner Bear”A fitness enthusiast is suing a company represented by the television adventurer Bear Grylls for £150,000 after she fell from monkey bars during an assault course and shattered her shin bone. Margot Harrison, 58, told a court that a surgeon had said her leg looked like a “stamped-on digestive biscuit” after she fell during a 5km obstacle course designed by the Old Etonian writer and broadcaster. The event was marketed as helping participants to “release the inner Bear” and to develop their “wilderness warrior spirit”. SponsoredA hearing at the High Court in London was told that the race took place in the capital in 2016 and included 20 obstacles. It passed through four themed landscape sections that were designed to replicate forest, jungle, Arctic and

Source: The Times July 15, 2021 16:06 UTC