On New Year's Eve 1998, Bear Grylls was running naked along a freezing beach in Scotland when he met the love of his life. Aged just 23 and months away from becoming one of the youngest people to scale Mount Everest, he feared it was the "worst timing in the world to fall in love" with willowy blonde Shara Cannings Knight.
Recalling that fateful evening, he once said: "It was freezing on the north coast of Scotland, and a wave came and took my clothes. "I was running around naked, trying to find my trousers." But the former Eton College pupil - whose real name is Edward Michael Grylls - was smitten and popped the question while skinny dipping, telling Piers Morgan's Life Stories: "I pulled out the ring from my butt cheeks." The young
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