I am native Hawaiian and admire these people for keeping their culture alive .

1:55 "The children today may have trouble lighting a fire the old way, but they certainly know what to do with it." *sets fire to the surroundings*

In Australia there are two types of plants. Plants that require fire to regenerate, and plants that don't and are actually killed off by fire. Some parts of Australia have burning off banned, and so the landscape is shifting back towards its pre-aboriginal diversity, with the exception of introduced species thriving in those environments as well. Its very interesting to see in Australia two very different landscapes that shows just how much aboriginals shaped Australia's environment and what it might have looked like if they never practiced burning off or never came to this continent in the first place.

amazing! the aboriginal man doesn't even need a firebow for the friction fire! my hands couldn't handle it :D

thanks, my history teacher challenged my entire class to make a fire this way and I am going to study this video to learn the method

I never knew that Ray Mears was ever that young.

It is amazing to see something humans did thousands of years ago and it must have taken equal time to develop !

i once met an Australian who told me the sborigines could manifest anything they needed just by thinking about it.

awesome vid! i feel that while ray doesn't do the crazy and exciting stuff that other survival hosts do, he more than makes up for it with the detailed information he gives us.

If you're going to try and survive in the wilderness, you have a lot to learn, depending on your environment. A warm or hot country has as many challenges as a cold wet one. Scotland is great in late spring till late autumn, after october, its almost garanteed to be permenantly wet, you need to remember this as being cold is one thing, being cold and wet can very easily become life threatening. Dry fire kindling is crucial collect and keep dry, once a little fire gets a hold, you can burn wet wood quite easily. Save as much ready to go wood as possible, spend a lot of time preparing for days of rain. Keep a low fire ticking over so you can get hot water quickly for hot drinks, even hot water is better than cold a saw is the most valuable tool to have you do not need an axe, make a fire on an old tree stump and it will still be smouldering deep inside in the morning. get everthing ready well before it gets dark and get a fire going as early at sun up as possible. Work hard and you wont feel cold, so you wont need a constant fire that needs tending till the right time. A natural woodland is sterile, humans can survive in this but rotting food can breed germs, atract flies, insects and wild animals.

2:03 I started crying. That sound design is beautiful. Also just feel such pain today about how we have completely lost ourselves in this society. That's why I searched up fire starting and found this wonderful video. Time to return

I've seen to many different way to start a fire by using stick and a board already with holes. This is exactly what i wanted to see. If i was stranded in no where, i should be able to find some thing similar to this. Thank you for the video.

I enjoy Ray Mears's works. How can we appreciate where we are now, if we don't have an understanding of where we've been?

Aboriginals are damn awesome. I like how some of them kept their traditions, or at least part of them. Around here in europe we lost everything... Well, almost. I remember going camping as a child and my father picked up some plants and putting them in boiling water.. and we got some really good tea.

they are VERY inteligent people

Both are good wih knowlidge in survival knowlidge, But I like Rays appreciation for indegenious people.

Thank you so muck 😊❤❤❤❤

Its so delightful to see full blood Aborigines and how they survived. in Australia the Aboriginal people are not allowed to be seen on television or in the media . there are a lot of people that only have a little bit of Aboriginal blood in them but claim to be aboriginal and get very upset when the full bloods are seen because it makes them look completely ridiculous so in order to not upset then we don't get to see this stuff

Beautiful

so fascinating.

Small low fires are actually encouraged to burn off introduced weeds. Everyone will burn but only the native plants will rejuvenate. Currently reading Fire Country. Excellent book

i don't know how many times i've seen this way of making fire

This called Fire-Stick Farming here in Australia.

Its amazing of how similar the technique is to the one used by Native American tribes, but its half way around the world!

i was quite surprise that Ray's fire starting tech was from the aboriginal.

That's an old men making bush fire his my own full Blooded Grandfather i 💕 miss you and Never forgotten 😭 you left me when I was age of 7 now I'm 26 missing you 😭💕💕

This is fun to watch

amazing

Beautiful 🥰

he makes it look so easy

When I saw that man pick up the hatchet while Ray was speaking, I was like "Oh no, Ray--look out! Dude's gotta hatc--oh..." LOL And I love Ray Mears. I like Bear, too, for the entertainment factor (though Ray is very entertaining to me, too). I don't get why people debate over our own opinions. But before both of these guys, there was Dick Proenneke. I just LOVE watching that dude! He can create a wooden house out of water and he once spit on the ground, and Chuck Norris grew from it.

i love the philip glass music

The aboriginal people of Australia are so cool! They were TRULY some bushcrafting people!

Ray should have put a bowl under that tree to collect the water when it came out. You can't afford to waste water, certainly not in the Australian bush.

i understood competely what you think you meant. you are the one who decided to take upon yourself to correct a commet i had made. in stead of just reading it and saying to yourself, "wow i think he is wrong". you insluted me.

Informative and beneficial video

His parents were born in England, he was born in England, he lives in Essex, he climbed Everest at the age of 23, he was in the SAS. To say that he is a fake American survivalist is just ridiculous. He was taught in the SAS to be a survivalist, they all are, it is a requirement. Ray Mears is certainly more knowledgeable but that doesn't change the fact that Grylls is still a certified and respected survivalist.

Oh my goodness, I'm glad I watched this video. I failed to get an ember from my first hand drill. I was following quite bad instructions that had advised me to use substantially different toughnesses of softwood/hardwood. No wonder that didn't work.

you can avoid blisters by baking your hands for a bit in a mixture of ash, lard, and a nice eyeball mash, if you have it on hand. reduces friction quite nicely otherwise yea, your kinda screwed inasfar as the blister thing goes

Come on baby light my fire🔥.. cool vid👍

That's bad ass! I've never seen a tree with water in it like that!

And here we are in Asia, we have 24/7 convenience stores where we are sometimes too lazy to walk 100m to get food and water lol...

I think many have lit matches before, even if they don't often. I'm 18 now, so technically I don't count (and I'm only one person), but even without all the camping I've done, there are times when you need to light a candle (power out during a storm) and your lighter has stopped working. Besides, even without being pyros, it seems many people find fire interesting/beautiful and have played with it at least a little bit at some point in their lives.

I find it amazing that people like the Aborigines and the Native Americans...were half a planet apart...and developed a lot of the same fire starting and living techniques.

Wow!!!

@roilggg the embers where on the knife. you can see at 1:32 the knife below so he just simply transfers with the knife

Most of you probably think Ray Mears is a better survivalist which he probably is seeing he has more experience...But i personally think bear is still a good survivalist and he has gives an entertaining show

I think ray and bear kick ass

I always carry a magnifying glass whilst I'm in the bush😂🤣

my firemaker level is OVER 9000!

@MrPsyxxx it's music from movie koyaanisqatsi and yes it's by philip glass :)

So that's why Australia has so many bush fires...

What kind of wood is used to light that fire?

Chairs have made us weak in the thighs and tight at the joints. Doing squats for exercise is unheard of for them.

it'd be soooo fun to be that kid!!

in one episode of man vs wild you can see bear eating a bagged lunch in a water reflection......

Anybody know what kind of knife the old guy was using? I have a similar kitchen knife but his doesn't have as extreme a curve and looks handier.

you also carved holes with knives that left nano dust knives that were forged with source flame

Music: *The Grid · Philip Glass*

Oh, and as a girl who doesn't smoke and is just out of high school... candles are nice. So are bonfires or campfires. Lighting a fire is needed for each of those. :)

+BBCWorldwide where can I find the full episodes of these??

This is why we have such a problem with bush fires .The aborigines burned the waste off after each season .There is a lot to learn from them

THAT IS HOW AMAZON FIRE STARTED

@superdonyoungy That would be a great show!

Fire starting method the aboriginal man uses in this video is identical to that used by the Masai in africa....must be a very very old technique, going back to the days before humanity spread out of africa and throughout the rest of the world...amazing.

@EvilKorbinDallas The fire dependant species also exist in the south, while forests produce a lot of fuel and can go 10-20 years without burning, combined with dry years from El Nina/El Nino cycle, and hot desert winds from the west, can result in explosive conditions. There is debate about back-burning, people get upset when they see a burnt Koala. However there is a difference between burning a fire-break and having the whole region go up in flames. Emotive subject for some.

West Papua and Eastern Indonesia have identical flora and fauna due to Wallace line. The tree is rare. Better to get hydrated by snake and lizard flesh it's what taught for survival courses (and benefit of fairly palateable protein). There is also very little potable water (lots of rivers full of diseases), so native Papuans don't drink much aside from tea and coffee and of course arak and kava.

@DancesWithLlamas like dave from dual survival right?

I watched this at school

holy crap it looks almost exactly like an old hickory skinner well spotted

thumbs up if you watched all 44 episodes or watever u call em.

Its all good brother, didn't mean to come off that way either. Cheers!

it's a hand drill method ;] where do you see bow?

That made you mad? Maybe that says more about your anxiety then it does about water shortages in the city.

I wish I could do this someday

Apparently the guys are eating from the same plate

Is it just me or did he completely miss the bulk of the water when it was cut into? rofl

Nature's secret fire.

u should bear grylls behind the scene video...he has like 30 people surrounding him lol

1:56 "The Children know what to do with it." Arson

@mypurplesneakers yep

wats the name of the tree guys???

my firemaking level is - 30, with a lighter it boosted to 60

What was the type of tree he cut in the beginning? It had water inside it? Sound Volume is too low so I couldn't catch the name of the tree. Can someone pls help?

who else reckons that a lot of animals pissed against that tree trunk hes drinkin from?

The less regularly the land Burns, the more dangerous it becomes.

I want a water tree. :D

You are correct too my friend :) Maybe I took it too literally, wasn't trying to be rude or smart-ass. Cheers

when you get older you will see that this guy is much better then bear grylls, its how the programme is edited and all dramatised with bear which makes it unpalatable whereas ray is no nonsense and to the point.

In science class too many people didnt know how to lite matches i sit on computer all day and i can use matches most people use lighters though

0:14 ... he just let go about quartet a gallon..

Are you saying Ray climbed everest?

its a freakin bow drill

@ravenblack1973 bear shows how to get out and he is awsome!

@foot175 Eventually you run out of matches and then what will you do? Text somebody on your iphone?

i have a ka-bar and its an incredible knife but the blade style of that one really interested me.

Our Ancestors in Africa 🌍 made Fire 🔥 the same Way Thousands of Year's B.C

bear grylss is trained brit special force. to show how trained men in brits arm force do the survival. ray myers is doing documentary how to survive in any mean way as the native do. both of them special in their kind of way

Most of our Australian ants need fire to regenerate. Their seeds are really hard and need the fire to germinate

@ravenblack1973 so true