An Ounce of Prevention: Five Tips to Avoid an Avalanche
Winter camping creates a unique experience that you won’t be able to find during the other seasons of the year. However, the cold weather also presents its own ...
Survival Skills
Cold Burn: 4 Tips for Avoiding Frostbite
Frostbite is an injury caused by exposure of skin and tissue to extremely cold temperatures, with the toes, fingers, ears, and nose being the most vulnerable.
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Stories of Survival: Louis Zamperini and Russell Allen Phillips
47 DAYS ON THE OPEN OCEAN
On Thursday September 20th, 1945, the Daily Times-Tribune of Alexandria, Indiana — beneath a photo of the hulking wreckage of the Mit...
FOUND ALIVE: Preparing for Lost-Child Situations
“Where’s my child?”
This scenario is every parent’s worst nightmare. A parent’s protective instincts are not comforted by the unknown. For a small percentage o...
SERE: Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape
Name, rank, and serial number. When captured by the enemy and taken prisoner, these are the only three things the captor needs to utter but not for the reason...
Suturing 101: What I Learned From Dr Bones & Nurse Amy
Recently, I took a weekend off to get away and have some fun. It was time for a road trip. Just three hours’ drive away, the National Preppers and Survivalists ...
Drive to Survive
Checkpoints have been set up just outside of town and the national guard is doing house-to-house clearing of all people in the quarantined zones. Democracy has ...
360-DEGREE SELF-DEFENSE
THWART AN ATTACK FROM ANY ANGLE
PLAIN AND SIMPLE, AN UNPREPARED AND DISTRESSED PERSON IN THE WAKE OF A DISASTER IS YOUR ENEMY. DESPERATE PEOPLE IN DIRE SITUATI...
Stories of Survival: The Donner Party
The saloon was eerily still. All eyes were on the six-foot-tall shell of a man who stared off into the musky din with steely blue eyes. The question lingered in...
Dead Cold: Hypothermia 101
Human beings live in a delicate temperature balance. It may seem like we’re pretty tolerant of changing temperatures because we can be comfortable on a hot summ...