Tag: survival

Learn how to survive in the wilds by watching the behaviour of the animals & birds

Doug Williams

Wild animals are experts of survival in the wilderness; purely because their mere existence is dependent on their ability to live through the harsh conditions.…

Burning the right wood in your campfire – it makes all the difference

So which woods are good for burning, and which aren’t? We often have a range of wood that we can burn and because we don’t…

Survivor: Tortured with razor-sharp bamboo and fed alive to ants-one PoW’s incredible escape from Vietnam

Paul Pinkerton

Flying low over the dangerous and impenetrable Laotian jungle on a bombing mission against the Viet Cong, U.S. Air Force Colonel Eugene Deatrick saw a…

Stop life-threatening bleeding in less than 10 seconds – Cayenne pepper

Doug Williams

Whenever an emergency occurs our first instinct is to get help; our first response towards a life-threatening situation must always be to ring 911 or…

Prepper: How to cook without drawing attention to yourself

Despite our natural urge to socialize and invite friends and family over whenever we can: in a situation where things have gotten out of hands, and…

Fleeing to the jungle during the Vietnam War, a father & son survived there for 41 years

Paul Pinkerton

After more than 40 years an elderly father and son were ‘rescued’ from the Vietnamese jungle, having spent 41 years – almost his entire life…

Finding water in the wilderness & what to look for

Doug Williams

Survival in wilderness solely depends on upon one’s response to the harsh conditions and amount of preparations made before setting off. One thing that we…

Survival Stories: Depends on resilience and the fighting spirit

Doug Williams

Surviving in harsh conditions is not down to one specific trait or some superhuman power; it entirely depends on the resilience and the fighting spirit…

He was 14 months adrift, then washed up on to a remote Pacific atoll

Doug Williams

After surviving more than a year adrift in the Pacific the first taste of the new world that the man received was a sip of coca…

He was 14 months adrift, then washed on remote Pacific atoll

Doug Williams

After surviving more than a year adrift in the Pacific the first taste of the new world that the man received was a sip of coca…