Ray Mears vs Bear Grylls

Sykk

Who's the better?

Definitely Bear Grylls in my eyes. He's a legend and does some crazy stuff that's would actually be required in a survival situation. He perseveres some of the toughest weather and conditions on earth.

The only real danger Ray Mears puts himself in is ever so slightly burning his mouth from sipping the mint tea from his 5 star hotel..

Discuss!

chin_grin

Sykk wrote: »

Discuss!

Ok!

Sindri

Sykk wrote: »

Who's the better?

Definitely Bear Grylls in my eyes. He's a legend and does some crazy stuff that's would actually be required in a survival situation. He perseveres some of the toughest weather and conditions on earth.

The only real danger Ray Mears puts himself in is ever so slightly burning his mouth from sipping the mint tea from his 5 star hotel..

Discuss!

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

Bear Grylls is a reality TV 'star'.

MungBean

Ray Mears would live comfortably in the wild. Bear Grills would be dead in a week from drinking piss water or trying to show everyone how dangerous it is to jump off a cliff.

thefly

You do realise that Bear Grylls stays in hotels??? In fact he admitted that he stays in hotels

GavRedKing

Bear Grylls, the guy is SAS trained and was one of the youngest Brittons to climb Everest.

Although, if your stuck in a life or death situation, either would be a real help.

MidlandsM

Bear *5 star hotel* Grylls ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...........

V_Moth

That human blimp Ray Mears would be odds-on favourite to subdue and ultimately consume Bear Grylls in a fight.

smash

Bear Grylls would gut Ray Mears and sleep inside him!

CasaBonita

Ray Mears all the way. I'd hate to be stuck in the wild with Bear Grylls - he's not the real deal.

trooney

Survivor man FTW!!!

neonman

Sykk wrote: »

Who's the better?

Definitely Bear Grylls in my eyes. He's a legend and does some crazy stuff that's would actually be required in a survival situation. He perseveres some of the toughest weather and conditions on earth.

The only real danger Ray Mears puts himself in is ever so slightly burning his mouth from sipping the mint tea from his 5 star hotel..

Discuss!

I think you'll find its Bear Grylls that is the fraud and not Ray Mears.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-470155/How-Bear-Grylls-Born-Survivor-roughed--hotels.html

Bear Grylls is a want a be Mears. Mears is the original and his shows are much more interesting than anything Grylls has done.

kieranfitz

Ray Mears all day every day. What teddy bear fails to mention is that he was 23 SAS(R), not 22 SAS, he's a stab, a sand bag and border line walt. There also the fact that if there was a path down the side of a mountain he'd throw himself off the top. OP you do realise that the "crazy stuff" he does is more likely to cause survival situation the aid one.

Outkast_IRE

Ray mears obvious winner for a real life situation , if i wanted someone with me to entertain me it would be Bear Grylls

Morpork

Cody Lundin wins. Have you seen his house?

biko

Bear Grylls has a cooler name.
Ray Mears sounds like Rainman.

suicide_circus

Ray all the way, his extra blubber would allow him to live longer in the wild and he would make you nutritious tea out of berries and moss, where as bear would have you drinking your own piss.

kieranfitz

Morpork wrote: »

Cody Lundin wins. Have you seen his house?

He is good, although his show with Dave Canterbury makes them seem more at odds then they really are.

Sykk

neonman wrote: »

I think you'll find its Bear Grylls that is the fraud and not Ray Mears.

dailymail
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Sorry, can't click the link :P

http://thrillingdomainname.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/yao-ming-meme.jpg?w=580

Gee Bag

To viewers of his TV series, Bear Grylls is the daredevil adventurer who catapults himself into world's worst 'hellholes' and then survives on his wits alone.
But it has emerged that far from roughing it in brutal environments, the former SAS man actually spent nights in hotels during filming of his Channel 4 show.
The Eton- educated 33-year- old is also alleged to have choreographed parts
Channel 4 last night began an investigation into the claims, which follow a number of embarrassing incidents in which programmes screened by the station were found to have misled the public.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-470155/How-Bear-Grylls-Born-Survivor-roughed--hotels.html#ixzz1pfr2EIu1

I once saw a show where bear grylls had to 'survive' on the coast of sligo by climbing into a dead sheep. He could have just gone down to centra and bought himself a breakfast roll.

Ray Mears knows his stuff inside out.

ejmaztec

I think I'll choose Ray Mears.

Inspired by Bear Grylls, a 29-year-old British man, David Austin, decided to embark on a year-long adventure in the Scottish wilderness. Unfortunately, the man died in under a month, likely from hypothermia. His body wasn’t discovered until weeks after he had died.

http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2012/02/man-who-tries-to-live-like-bear-grylls-dies-like-christopher-mccandless

ChippingSodbury

Ray Mears is the man!

It's like comparing broadsheets and tabloids...

Tabnabs

Mors Kochanski FTW!

Paparazzo

Bush Tucker Man would have both of them gutted and diced up in a pot with some yabbies before they knew what hit them

suicide_circus

Gee Bag wrote: »

I once saw a show where bear grylls had to 'survive' on the coast of sligo by climbing into a dead sheep. He could have just gone down to centra and bought himself a breakfast roll.

Lol

ChippingSodbury

Gee Bag wrote: »

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-470155/How-Bear-Grylls-Born-Survivor-roughed--hotels.html#ixzz1pfr2EIu1

I once saw a show wear bear grylls had to 'survive' on the coast of sligo by climbing into a dead sheep. He could have just gone down to centra and bought himself a breakfast roll.

Ray Mears knows his stuff inside out.

Sligo is a dangerous place you know, dinosaurs and all sorts round there...
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056555873

RussellTuring

Sykk wrote: »

Who's the better?

Definitely Bear Grylls in my eyes. He's a legend and does some crazy stuff that's would actually be required in a survival situation. He perseveres some of the toughest weather and conditions on earth.

The only real danger Ray Mears puts himself in is ever so slightly burning his mouth from sipping the mint tea from his 5 star hotel..

Discuss!

I think you have the two men mixed up. Ray Mears often goes where he does to tell a particular story and is very easy-going and honest, in addition to looking like the type of chap you could actually talk to. Grylls is the one who likes to try look like a tough man while spending the nights in hotels. He also seems like the kind of chap who would go on a night out wearing three popped collars and shouting at the top of his voice so everyone knows exactly how cool he is.

44leto

Poor ould Bear Grylls just got sacked from discovery over a contractual dispute.

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCYQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2Fentertainment%2Ftelevision%2Fbear-grylls-man-wild-host-fired-discovery-channel-contract-issue-article-1.1038309&ei=fa1oT47yL8aXhQfo_emWCg&usg=AFQjCNE7c8yuerBNvRaOMpgcloVMtAioow&sig2=BqqJiOxigWDokcu5E-GipQ

Bear was better, we all have our wincing Bear moments, mine was when he ate the big raw spider, or sucked moisture from a dead camels stomach.

suicide_circus

Ray seems much more practical and sage-like, his lovely calm voice gives confidence and you learn from him. Bear is all about shock value, shakey camera work and piss drinking.

Sykk

Ray always has the nice meals and soups. Things that in all reality, you will not likely find. Not in any barren wilderness.

People prefer the idea of having nice berry soup as opposed to eating spiders and grubs, yet it is rarely possible when you're in survival situations..

Bear does what needs to be done.

Gee Bag

suicide_circus wrote: »

Bear is all about shock value, shakey camera work and piss drinking.

sounds a bit like my porn collection

GowlBag

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

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

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.

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

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

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

longhalloween

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

Paparazzo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Rolli wrote: »

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

Aye, Bear was in the British Special Forces.

Nodin

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'.