Tag: survival

Amazing story of jungle survival: Japanese soldier who stayed in the jungle for 30 years after WW2

Paul Pinkerton

Hirō Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World War II and was a Japanese holdout who did not surrender in 1945.…

Spit fishing and some other strange survival tricks in the wilderness

Survival is a mindset that one needs to hone even in the peacetime, so that when the time comes you can easily switch to the…

Escaped from a Japanese PoW: Robert McLaren had to remove his own appendix in the jungle

By 1942, Robert “Jock” McLaren had already escaped from a prison camp in Singapore, fought for weeks with local guerrillas, been betrayed to the Japanese…

Incredible: Emile Leray built a working motorbike from a broken down car to escape the African desert

Paul Pinkerton

‘I put myself in what one calls survival mode. I could not have gone back on foot – it was too far.’ A Frenchman has…

Robert McLaren Removed His Own Appendix In The Jungle Copy

Paul Pinkerton

By 1942, Robert “Jock” McLaren had already escaped from a prison camp in Singapore, fought for weeks with local guerrillas, been betrayed to the Japanese…

Robert McLaren Removed His Own Appendix In The Jungle

Paul Pinkerton

By 1942, Robert “Jock” McLaren had already escaped from a prison camp in Singapore, fought for weeks with local guerrillas, been betrayed to the Japanese…