Bear Grylls reveals he almost died when his parachute failed - 'My world just went black”
ok.co.ukBear Grylls has told how his ‘world went black’ after he broke his back when his parachute failed while he was skydiving. The 49 year old TV adventurer was lucky to survive with his life and said he should have been paralysed following the terrifying incident - but luckily he missed severing his spinal cord by millimetres.
Bear, aged 21 at the time, was skydiving with friends in Zimbabwe when his parachute failed to inflate at 16,000 feet. He had been in Southern Africa serving in the Territorial Army with the SAS in 1996 and was enjoying a well deserved break when the accident happened.
And, appearing on Tuesday's Good Morning Britain, Bear recalled the moment he realised his parachute had failed and his desperate attempts to save himself.
He said: “I think at the time you’re just desperately trying to sort it out. It was getting dark, you’re just in a sort of fuzz of, ‘what’s wrong, can I sort this, have I got time to go for this reserve?’ “And then, you know, in a heartbeat, ‘boom’, the world sort of went black.
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