Dispatches: Bear Grylls Will Never Give Up

Published: March 20, 2018, noon

b'Apparently nobody told Bear Grylls that reality TV stars never have long careers. A dozen years after the cheeky Briton exploded onto American television, the king of survival entertainment is charging harder than ever, guiding A-listers into the wild for his NBC show\\xa0Running Wild with Bear Grylls\\xa0and launching innovative new series for Facebook and Netflix. He\\u2019s also building an adventure theme park in England and hosting a new survival race this spring outside Los Angeles that\\u2019s open to anyone. Outside executive editor Michael Roberts, who\\u2019s been covering Grylls for over a decade, tracked down the enduring icon on location in the Sierra Nevada\\xa0to ask him: What\\u2019s your secret for survival? And why are you so convinced that going through tough times is good for all of us?'