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Bear went to the prestigious and private, Eton College, as a teenager and helped the school to develop their mountaineering and martial arts clubs. By the time he was 18 years old, Bear was a confident climber, skydiver and had been awarded his Second Dan black belt in Shotokan Karate. At the time, he was one of the youngest people in the country to do so. He served in the 21st regiment for three years. He was trained in combat survival, demolitions and close quarter fighting. While serving in Africa, Bear had a terrible parachuting accident.

His parachute failed to inflate. Bear landed on his rigid parachute pack, and fractured three vertebrae, but miraculously survived. Bear was crushed, though, when doctors told him he might never walk again. In most cases, treatment involves surgeons fusing the broken vertebrae together, which reduces mobility.

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