Survival for Beginners a Step by Step Guide to Camping and Outdoor Skills

I am often asked what is the most terrifying survival situation I have been in, but, although I have operated in some of the world’s most hostile environments, I have never actually found myself in a true “life or death” survival situation. Am I just lucky? Maybe, but as they say in the military, “luck favours those who are best prepared”. While some survival situations do happen through sheer bad luck, most arise from a sequence of events that could have been avoided. When sitting on top of a mountain suffering from hypothermia, it is too late to realize that you should have either checked the weather forecast and packed warm clothing before you set out, or turned back when the weather looked like changing! Hiking, camping, and exploring the outdoors are great fun and hugely rewarding, but remember the wise old survival saying: “knowledge weighs nothing and takes up no room in your pack”. With this book, you will learn essential outdoor craft and survival techniques that will help you avoid survival situations and show you what to do if the unfortunate does happen.