According to the search results, there is no recent news about anything happening to Ray Mears. The most recent information available is that he lives with his wife Ruth in Sussex. He founded Woodlore, the School of Wilderness Bushcraft in 1983 and has been teaching ever since. He has also continued to work in television and has published more than ten books. Ray Mears was married to Rachel Mears in 2005, but she passed away in 2006. He remarried in 2009 to Ruth.