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Ray Mears Talks To Trees Shocker

He can't see the wood for talking to the trees... Survival guru goes broadleaf crazy in the broadsheets.


Posted: 18 February 2002
by Jon Doran

As it's a slow news Monday, we thought we'd draw your attention to the Observer's profile of telly tubby survival guru Ray Mears.

I am the judge, and you are barking...

You can expect to see a lot of Ray over the next few weeks as he has a book out and is being touted around the papers by his publishers. It's a magical feature as Observer journo Andrew Smith shares salami and tomato kebabs on whittled skewers - 'Don't use yew or holly or anything with waxy leaves because they tend to be toxic' - and decides that Mears 'actually is' the world's number one expert on survival in the wilderness'.

How Smith knows this to be the case is anyone's guess, but what the heck. The real revelation, buried deep in the article, is that Ray talks to trees. 'I believe trees know what we're thinking and doing. They judge us.'

Don't believe us? Read the story on the Observer web site.


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Could Ray's dream tarp-mate be wrinkly yet perenially hairy rockster Ted Nugent? This is only the start of an interview in today's Metro paper:

"Every day, free from a bout of severe diarrhoea, I have more energy than your average white guy at the peak of orgasm. My life is an erect spirit. I get beyond mellow. When I'm bow-hunting, I might sit in a tree for 12 to 14 hours, statuesque, immobilised, as calm as a person can be while maintaining mission awareness: to kill dinner with a short stick. I'm both flatlining and soaring on the wings of an eagle. You balance your life between the extremes of solitude and spirituality and predatorship. I live my lives in spades and my hunting is calming and re-energising. My spiritual goal is to sleep like a baby."

Even more of the same at http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/metro/

Posted: 19/02/2002 at 10:22

Wow, reminds me of that terrible TV advert for the anti-diarrhoea tablets where that woman seems to be suffering from it on a day to day basis...

Posted: 19/02/2002 at 10:43

Ted 'Dog Eat Dog' Nugent. Ted 'Let's kill anything that moves' Nugent. He is a short stick (miss-spelt). Distasteful person. Bow and arrow? I am surprised, normal form is an arse nal of self repeating (like his music) weapons and a few paying clients. Allegedly.

Posted: 19/02/2002 at 11:35

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