HE may have a name like the most unlikely of themed restaurants but you've got to admit that Bear Grylls has got guts.
He's a professional adventurer who seems to be able to persuade Channel Four to make films about his madcap schemes and the result is usually great viewing.
Previously he's joined the Foreign Legion and suffered in the sun and he's also climbed Mount Everest.
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Last night we watched him attempt to go one better - and fly higher than the summit of the world's highest mountain with a Heath Robinson-like contraption which seemed to be little more than an old motorbike engine strapped to a hanglider.
It's pointless to ask the question which most normal people would come up with, namely, why?
For Bear is a rare breed, the sort of man who in previous centuries would head out into unknown continents with a stout pair of shoes, a hip flask full of single malt and a total conviction that he would be OK.
In Mission Everest, old Bear (what were his parents thinking?) managed to find another like-minded spirit (the equally improbably named Gilo) to accompany him.
Their respective partners were less than impressed at the idea and the whole thing harked back to the days of Boys' Own Adventures.
Gilo's engine even looked as though it was being held together with bits of string.
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