Category: survival skills

Manaus to Porto Velho | Tough Rides Season 3 Episode 4

It is now time to test Ryan’s resolve and put his survival skills to the test. After exploring the Amazon rainforest from the air, Ryan meets up with Leo, a tree-climbing and jungle survival expert. …


VIDEO: Man and His Dog Turn Abandoned Bunker Into Warm, Cozy Blizzard Shelter—Check It Out

A camping enthusiast, who has honed survival skills since childhood, took his dog and his camera into the forest during a blizzard for a special excursion: they headed for an abandoned village and an underground stone bunker that had the potential to be their shelter for the night. Croatia-born Martin Lukavski, 36, headed to northwestern Croatia…


‘Preppers’: Survival Classes Help People Prepare for the Worst

As a former U.S. Army Ranger, Jeffrey McCaskill once taught survival skills to soldiers. Now, the 58-year-old North Vancouver resident leads the Ready to Thrive Survival School to help prepare civilians for urban and wilderness survival. “I’ve been in places abroad where the economy’s collapsed before my eyes. I know how people act. I know…


Emergency Preparedness: How to Form a Survival Group—and Why It’s Important

The mythologization of the Lone Ranger is just that: a myth. And yet, it persists in movies and novels because it’s something many people aspire to be—a rugged, self-reliant individual who overcomes the worst adversities with his or her talent stack of survival skills and vast knowledge of nearly everything. In reality, the Lone Ranger…


British Preppers Are Stocked Up, Well Prepared, And ‘Detached From The Chaos’

Members of the British prepping community, inspired by the USA survivalist movement, said that more than ever, people are willing to explore extreme survival in their country. At one time considered a small subculture that raised eyebrows for its perceived apocalyptic thinking, preppers told The Epoch Times how they and others are proactively preparing for…


VIDEO: Former Royal Dutch Marine Reveals Ocean Survival Hack—Makes Life Preserver out of His Pants

Anyone who’s ventured out across the vast, deep-blue, briny sea—on a cruise liner perhaps—has probably entertained what falling in would be like. Our minds conjure visions of “Jaws” lurking, unseen in the black depths, under our dangling feet. But what would you do in that situation, really? One former Royal Marine of the Netherlands has…