By Cameron M. Smith
Your one-stop advisor to surviving and having fun with the good Outdoors
Want to grasp how you can remain alive in severe events? This functional, actual advisor provides all of the professional, field-tested instruments and strategies you want to live on. no matter if you end up misplaced within the woods, adrift on a existence raft, bitten through a snake, or desiring take care of in chilly climate, this hands-on source teaches you ways to stick secure (and sane), locate rescue, and reside to inform the tale!
- Know the fundamentals of survival — practice life-saving first reduction, make hearth and preserve, and locate water and food
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Manage your feelings — take care of panic and anger, get the "survivor's attitude," and foster cooperation and desire with others
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Increase your probabilities of rescue — sign for aid and navigate utilizing a compass or the sky
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Practice professional survival tools — tie crucial knots, craft your individual guns and instruments, and make normal remedies
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Gain knowledge for water emergencies — remain afloat while your send or boat sinks, steer clear of dehydration and hunger, and make it to shore
Open the booklet and find:
- Common survival eventualities you could encounter
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Tried-and-tested suggestion for people or groups
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The goods you want to remain alive
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Basic orientation skills
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Ways to maintain hot or cool
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The most sensible equipment for construction a hearth in any environment
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What you could (and cannot) consume and drink within the wild
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True tales of survival
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Chapter 2 identifies the equipment to take. ✓ Relying too much on GPS or cellphones to carry you through rough conditions: Not watching your maps because you have GPS or ignoring a deteriorating situation because you think can always call for help is a recipe for disaster. Take a look at Chapter 11 for more on this. Losing it: Behaviors that help you get lost You can get lost in the wild for an infinite number of reasons, but certain common denominators frequently crop up in statistical surveys of lost persons.
You need to remember one startling fact when facing a survival situation: Many people succumb — they give up and perish — before they’re physically overwhelmed. They give up trying to get into a life raft after just a few tries, or they lie down on the trail after just a few days or even hours of misery. Their perception, and therefore their belief, is that the situation is beyond their means or that the struggle simply isn’t worth it. If you’ve ever had the misfortune to see this, then you know, as we do, that it’s one of the most bizarre, unfathomable characteristics of humankind.
We cover wilderness first aid in Chapter 13. ✓ Map collection: Collect any map you can. Anything helps — even sightseeing or tourist maps, because each map contains a different type of info. Put your maps in a zipper-lock plastic bag. ✓ Sewing needles, thread, and buttons: Being able to repair your clothing is important, as is the ability to improvise clothing from scraps of fabric, plastic, and so on. You can carry several needles in a survival kit. We suggest large, heavy needles, at least 2 inches long, with large eyes that are easy to thread with a variety of cordage (Figure 2-2c).