Ray Mears vs Bear Grylls

GowlBag · 20-03-2012 05:31PM

Ray Mears FTW. Ray shows you how to survive whereas Bear shows you how to commit suicide. Of course Bear Grylls is all about wow/entertainment factor. Fair play to Grylls on the amount of charity work he does though.

spankmaster2000 · 20-03-2012 05:37PM

Grylls,

climbed Mt. Everest
Circumnavigated of the UK on a jetski
Crossed the North Atlantic on an open inflatable boat
Paramotored over the himalayas
Completed the world's longest indoor freefall
etc, etc

The part that wins for me though is that many of the above were for charity.
(e.g. "He also rowed naked for 22 miles in a homemade bathtub along the Thames to raise funds for a friend who lost his legs in a climbing accident.")

A flashy tv personality he may be, but using his status for children's charities, etc, is commendable.

Ray reminds me an awful lot of Alan Titchmarsh...

The Jammy dodger · 20-03-2012 05:41PM

Bear grylls is just too fake and is all about show-man-ship. I find Ray to be much more educating in his programs and interesting. Just down to earth and interesting guy on all levels.

So its gotta be ray for me.

20-03-2012 05:43PM

Is it true that Bear was born in Ireland? He said on one of his episodes that he grew up in Ireland. Galway maybe?

44leto · 20-03-2012 05:44PM

spankmaster2000 wrote: »

Grylls,
climbed Mt. Everest

Circumnavigation of the UK on a jetski

Crossed the North Atlantic on an open inflatable boat

Paramotored over the himalayas

Completed the world's longest indoor freefall

etc, etc

The part that wins for me though is that many of the above were for charity.
(e.g. "He also rowed naked for 22 miles in a homemade bathtub along the Thames to raise funds for a friend who lost his legs in a climbing accident.")

A flashy tv personality he may be, but using his status for children's charities, etc, is commendable.

I wonder how do you do that one, I fell off a ladder once, I kind of thought I had that record.

BrokenArrows · 20-03-2012 05:46PM

Ray is the gentlemans survivalist while Bear is the adrenaline junkies surivialist.

longhalloween · 20-03-2012 05:48PM

Well Ray Mears is a chub, so I'd say he's the best

Paparazzo · 20-03-2012 05:49PM

Out of the 2 I'm going with Bear Grylls.
Ray Mears always seems to have exactly what he needs. For instance, he's stranded in the desert and he makes a hat out of tin foil to protect him from the sun. Because there's an abundance of tin foil in the desert. His shows aren't about survival, they're more like a camping trip with the scouts.

Rolli · 20-03-2012 05:50PM

Sindri wrote: »

Ray Mears actually teaches you practical tips to survive. He also actually trains the SAS.

Bear Grylls is a reality TV 'star'.

AFAIK, Bear Brylls was in the army or something like that

spankmaster2000 · 20-03-2012 05:50PM

44leto wrote: »

I wonder how do you do that one, I fell off a ladder once, I kind of thought I had that record.

A "vertical wind tunnel" apparently!

Grylls, along with the double amputee Al Hodgson and the Scotsman Freddy MacDonald, set a Guinness world record in 2008 for the longest continuous indoor freefall.[29] The previous record was 1 hr 36 mins by a US team. Grylls, Hodgson, and MacDonald, using a vertical wind tunnel in Milton Keynes, broke the record by a few seconds. The attempt was in support of the charity Global Angels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Grylls#Longest_indoor_freefall

ejmaztec · 20-03-2012 05:57PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Is it true that Bear was born in Ireland? He said on one of his episodes that he grew up in Ireland. Galway maybe?

Probably Blarney.

Ghost Buster · 20-03-2012 05:58PM

Paparazzo wrote: »

Out of the 2 I'm going with Bear Grylls.
Ray Mears always seems to have exactly what he needs. For instance, he's stranded in the desert and he makes a hat out of tin foil to protect him from the sun. Because there's an abundance of tin foil in the desert. His shows aren't about survival, they're more like a camping trip with the scouts.

You have seen the disclaimer at the start of Bear Grylls 'show' stating that these are staged scenarios havent you?
TBH I like both but its not really comparing like with like. All the have in common is the outdoorsy / survival aspect in the same way that Star Wars and Steven Hawkins 'A brief history of time' have space in common.
You can guess which is which in regard to Grylls and Mears

Mycroft H · 20-03-2012 05:59PM

Sir Ranaulph Feinnes outshadows them both in the ultimate badass competition.

Forget drinking your own piss, he ran seven marathons on seven consecutive days on seven different continents only months after a heart bypass at the age of 59

Son Of A Vidic · 20-03-2012 06:00PM

Sykk wrote: »

Who's the better?

Definitely Bear Grylls in my eyes. He's a legend and does some crazy stuff

And that's precisely why he wouldn't last very long in a real world survival situation. True survivalist like Ray Mears can last for the long haul, Grylls would not. His ridiculous high risk style of movement alone, would probably guarantee a compound fracture and death within days. Mears teaches the art of long term survival, but Grylls is all about the money shot.

Ghost. · 20-03-2012 06:01PM

Ray Mears shows people how to live comfortably outdoors, live of what nature provides without much discomfort and hardship.

Bear Grylls shows people how to survive by sucking the moisture from dung, eating rotting road kill he finds and that sort of thing.

Using what Ray Mears shows you would survive and quite happily.
Using what Bear Grylls sows, you might survive, but would probably be better off dead.

I gotta say if I was going to be relying on one of them to feed me in the wilds it would have to be Ray Mears.

Plus the episode Bear Grylls did in Ireland was pointless because there is probably nowhere in the country that isnt walking distance from a chip shop.

af_thefragile · 20-03-2012 06:04PM

Ray Mears is super boring!!
If the wild doesn't kill you, the boredom will!

Bear Grylls is a lot more exciting. He jumps down from planes, runs through deserts and canyons, eats frogs, drinks his own pee, builds a shelter, builds a fire, drinks his own pee, builds canoes, goes fishing, did I mention he drinks his own pee?

Mycroft H · 20-03-2012 06:04PM

Ghost. wrote: »

Ray Mears shows people how to live comfortably outdoors, live of what nature provides without much discomfort and hardship.

Bear Grylls shows people how to survive by sucking the moisture from dung, eating rotting road kill he finds and that sort of thing.

Using what Ray Mears shows you would survive and quite happily.
Using what Bear Grylls sows, you might survive, but would probably be better off dead.

I gotta say if I was going to be relying on one of them to feed me in the wilds it would have to be Ray Mears.

Plus the episode Bear Grylls did in Ireland was pointless because there is probably nowhere in the country that isnt walking distance from a chip shop.

Ballycroy national park

117sq km of near uninhabited bogland.

Squ · 20-03-2012 06:11PM

BX 19 wrote: »

Ballycroy national park

117sq km of near uninhabited bogland.

~12km x 10km.. max 3hr stroll through some nice country side, watch out for the bog holes mind. I fell into one as a nipper and had to endure a gruelling 5 minute walk back to the car to get a towel.

Anyway, Mears v Grylls? Grylls cameraman wins everytime.

Sykk · 20-03-2012 06:15PM

Rolli wrote: »

AFAIK, Bear Brylls was in the army or something like that

Aye, Bear was in the British Special Forces.

Nodin · 20-03-2012 06:16PM

Ghost. wrote: »

.............
Plus the episode Bear Grylls did in Ireland was pointless because there is probably nowhere in the country that isnt walking distance from a chip shop.

The only place I recall that people get "lost" in is Wicklow mountains, so why he went to the West is rather beyond me. This, however, is the man who took a "shortcut" through a mine with no caving equipment, in theory when he'd be 'on his own'.

pawrick · 20-03-2012 06:18PM

Bear for watching on TV but Ray if you were actually in a survival situation would be my first choice.

You have to remeber though that Bear can probably survive with out the crazy stuff he does as that's just to make the programme more entertaining

According to his wiki page he is was raised in the North but moved very young from there, I also remember him saying on tv that he spent summers in Cork or Kerry visiting family not 100% on that one though.

Also according to wiki he has three sons: Jesse, Marmaduke and Huckleberry! Is this a joke?!

Tonyandthewhale · 20-03-2012 06:21PM

Squ wrote: »

~12km x 10km.. max 3hr stroll through some nice country side, watch out for the bog holes mind. I fell into one as a nipper and had to endure a gruelling 5 minute walk back to the car to get a towel.

Yeah but you don't get to a chip shop as youn as you leave the park. Depending on where you start off from in the park it might take you 4 hours walk to get to the village of ballybeg and I don't even know if they have a chip shop, although I'm sure you could get chips in 'sizzlers' or you could go to the spar on the crossroads and get a breakfast role.

Or you could drink your own piss.

Ghost Buster · 20-03-2012 06:22PM

Grylls is Oasis and Mears is Blur.

Squ · 20-03-2012 06:23PM

BX 19 wrote: »

Ballycroy national park

117sq km of near uninhabited bogland.

~12km x 10km.. max 3hr stroll through some nice country side, watch out for the bog holes mind. I fell into one as a nipper and had to endure a gruelling 5 minute walk back to the car to get a towel.

Anyway, Mears v Grylls? Grylls cameraman wins everytime.

unfortunately · 20-03-2012 06:31PM

Squ wrote: »

~12km x 10km.. max 3hr stroll through some nice country side, watch out for the bog holes mind. I fell into one as a nipper and had to endure a gruelling 5 minute walk back to the car to get a towel.

Anyway, Mears v Grylls? Grylls cameraman wins everytime.

Exactly, if I was in the centre of a circle of area 117 sq km, I'd only be approx. 6 km from the edge.

If I was in the centre of a square of 117 sq km, I'd only be 5.4km from any edge (a bit further for the corners).

Super-Rush · 20-03-2012 06:36PM

The difference between the two is that Bear Grylls teaches you how to survive for a few days in the wild, Ray Mears shows you how to live in the wild for a long period of time.

Ray Mears is my choice.

20-03-2012 06:37PM

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Grylls is Oasis and Mears is Blur.

Bear Grylls is more Milli Vanilli

KyussBishop · 20-03-2012 06:43PM

Ray Mears is smart "that cliff over there is pretty dangerous, better stay away", Bear Grylls is an idiot "that cliff over there is really dangerous, get too close I could easily fall and kill myself....watch me climb across it!"

I prefer watching Ray Mear's MacGuyver-like bushcraft skills, put to practical use in often pretty relaxing/sedate looking places, than watch Bear Brylls give himself an enema on TV.

lol at first YouTube comment there: "This dude just shoved a fúcking hose up his ass for no reason at all. What the fúck?"

44leto · 20-03-2012 06:44PM

I think they are 2 different type of programmes both are good, Ray is a better presenter and more informative, Bear is more exciting and definitely better television moments.

But which one would i rather be in the wild with, Ray, no question, Bear can feck off if he thinks I will eat a spider or some other maggot, like why do you think they invented campbells soup.

boomkatalog · 20-03-2012 06:46PM

Read the title, instantly forgot which was which.

Who's the fella that drinks his own p1ss every time it rains?

Ray Mears vs Bear Grylls

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