"Could You Survive?" - What an excellent question!When someone brings up wildnerness survival most peoples minds seem to make an immediate jump to the sensational: a plane crash in the wilds of Alaska, a boat being moved off course by a hurricane and stranding its passengers on an uncharted (or simply uninhabited) island. But the truth is much more mundane that that.
People driving through the mountains break-down, and freeze to death because they dont know how to build a fire. Hikers get lost because they didnt prepare, and dont know how to deal with panic. People get hurt, or die, all the time because of simple things like a flat tire and no spare, taking the wrong trail, a horse falling with them and leaving them alone in the high country with a broken leg and a storm coming.
I have never even seen a plane crash in a remote wilderness, or a ship wreck on a desert island, but I have been broken down on the side of a dirt road 50 miles from the ass-end of nowhere as the temperature crept below Zero. I have been in the high country, stranded for one reason or another, collecting drinking water, building fires to cook and stay warm. I have met people who got lost on a day hike, didnt have any food, had run out of what little water they had and who might still have been stumbling around country they didnt know in the dark if they hadnt...
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