The explorer who gave up on sex, alcohol, and tobacco says that he wants to enjoy the life that he loves rather something he has a lust for. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant at the age of 18 after being selected by the Admiralty Interview Board. He was also posted to Iraq, where he served in a security and humanitarian capacity in Iraqi Kurdistan for Operation Provide Comfort during and after the First Gulf War. The militant after six years being a Lieutenant left the service to study physical science and sports science but dropped to become trekking leader for several scientific and conservation expeditions throughout Indonesia.
Since then there was no turning back for him and was even awarded Royal Television Society Award for Best Presenter in two successive years for two different show Tribe and Amazon. Bruce Parry during his work in Photo: thetimes. The traveler is now making to look film sector a place of his known. The documentary intends to make a wider look into several concerns within his TV programmes and personal lessons which he has learned from his travels and explorations.
Parry, 49, grew up in Dorset, one of three children, and attended Wells Cathedral School. When he went to Devon for fitness training, Parry left it at his barracks in Arbroath, stuffed full of everything he owned. They fell about laughing and said it had been taken to the firing range and used as an anti-tank target. Parry left the service as a lieutenant, still only He then spent four years in Indonesia leading jungle expeditions. It was only when he returned to Britain that he took his driving test.
Parry then spent time as a location manager and runner in the film industry. His latest adventure in assimilation, however, is perhaps his most formidable challenge yet. In October last year the BBC ethnographer, former Royal Marines fitness instructor and determined hedonist moved from his long-time base in Ibiza to an isolated hamlet in mid-Wales.
He plans to be here for many years to come. I met him for lunch in the only cafe for 10 miles around, Cwtch in Pont rhyd-y groes, which is built above a gorge of the Ystwyth river beside the old workings of a lead mine.
Parry has cycled from his cottage beside a waterfall on the neighbouring Hafod estate. Food was one of the reasons that he ended up here. Having spent 30 years as a professional nomad, he not only wanted to put down roots, he also wanted to pull some up. Parry has an instantly likable and high-energy presence. He has made no secret of indulging in all the delights that Ibiza can offer — as well as taking just about every hallucinogen under the sun in order to be fully accepted in different jungle communities.
He turned 50 in March. How, I wonder, did he cope with his first wet Welsh winter? He employs an ethnographic style and a form of participant observation for his documentaries. Parry was born into a devoutly Christian and military family from Dorset with his father being a Major in the Royal Artillery. Also in Parry appeared as the straight-faced instructor in three episodes of Danger! In his early adulthood, he became a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Marines.
While in the Marines, he lived in Norway for a time and was also involved in humanitarian activities in Iraq. Bruce planned, filmed, directed and presented the documentary episode with his friend Mark Anstice. The film was a first-hand account of their successful journey to climb Puncak Mandala in the Indonesian part of New Guinea. It is the second highest mountain of Australasia but is little known and rarely climbed. In , Parry started filming the prime time BBC2 documentary series Tribe in which he lived with various tribal groups exactly as they do in order to better understand their culture.
His documentaries have also won a number of awards from various film festivals around the world. Ranked on the list of most popular TV Show Host. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in United Kingdom.
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