Ray still just ahead in the UK, but Bear more popular worldwide

[Laurentius]

You have to give respect to the film teams out there, whether they are following BG, RM, David Attenborough or whoever.

If you want to compare BG's climb up Everest to anything, compare it to the two film teams that summited Everest in the worst year ever for disaster, 1996. Maximum respect.

 

[Tadpole]

OMG!! Someone pass me the mind bleach!!

Tadpole where was the quote from?
"She was halfway across Africa when there was an uprising in Zaire. It was a very dangerous situation," he says. "She had to leave her support Land Rover and she asked me to walk with her to keep her safe. We walked for 300 miles over about six months through Zaire, the Central African Republic and Cameroon, pushing all her possessions in a handcart. I started out as a very fit 13 stone and ended up 10 stone - at one point in Zaire I weighed 8 stone." I had malaria twice. Ray P Mears

Lisa -Lady of Tanith

Sadly it is From the newspaper the FT, but it's no longer on their Website, it's also quoted on one other Highly respected site

 

[demographic]

That Google Trends thing just reflects how many Google searches are done in each country... I wonder how bit a percentage of those are the two people in question just Ego Surfing and which one puts his own name into Google most

To be honest I know which one I like to watch on the telly and that even the wife (who really does try and see the best side in everyone) calls the other a bit of a "Drama Queen".