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How to Survive the Freezing Cold" There are plenty of cold-weather survival scenarios.

How to Survive the Freezing Cold"

You might be an avid camper or hiker lost in the dead of winter. You could be the victim of a plane crash in the Swiss Alps. Maybe you've had a car accident going over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house. Or perhaps you've simply lost electricity for an extended period of time in your own home. Jungle Survival. The World’s jungles are some of the most spectacular and most hostile environments in the world.

Jungle Survival

They contain vast areas of dense woodland and undergrowth often in intense heat and humidity as well as a vast array of stinging biting and poisonous fauna and flora. The term jungle describes an area of dense undergrowth and woodland in a tropical area throughout the World. Jungles exist in areas of high humidity and temperature (I have experienced 100% humidity and 115 degrees while in the jungle of the Yucatan Peninsular in Mexico) where the natural vegetation is generally forest. Jungle_survival_at_survivaloutdoorskills. Cold weather survival guide: What you need to know when N.J. temperatures plummet. An arctic blast will leave New Jersey feeling its coldest weather in several years due to suddenly warming temperatures miles above the North Pole, meteorologists say.

Cold weather survival guide: What you need to know when N.J. temperatures plummet

Here are the hot tips you’ll need to know to raise your readiness when the mercury drops. Select a category:HEALTH | EXERCISE | SENIORS | KIDS | PETS | HOME | SPACE HEATERS | CARBON MONOXIDE | WATER PIPES | HEATING | CARS & DRIVING Hypothermia When exposed to low temperatures, your body loses heat faster than it can produce it. Prolonged exposure expends stored energy. WARNING SIGNS Adults: Shivering, exhaustion, confusion, fumbling hands, memory loss, slurred speech, drowsiness. Frostbite causes a loss of feeling and color in affected areas - most often the nose, ears, cheeks, chin, fingers or toes.

Take the person's temperature. . • Get the victim to warm shelter Frostbite Frostbite causes a loss of feeling and color in affected areas - most often the nose, ears, cheeks, chin, fingers or toes. How to Survive in the Jungle" In the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film "Apocalypse Now," a young Martin Sheen learns a valuable lesson as Capt.

How to Survive in the Jungle"

Ben Willard: "Never get out of the boat. " In that movie, Capt. Willard and Chef, a fellow soldier, disembark from their PT boat and venture into the jungles of Vietnam in search of mangoes. What they're greeted with instead is a wild tiger with designs to eat them. Luckily, Willard and Chef make it back to the boat safe, and Willard is able to complete his mission. Jungle Survival: Finding Water" Because jungles are so wet, collecting rainwater is probably the easiest part of survival.

Jungle Survival: Finding Water"

Leaves on the rainforest floor are large because of the limited amount of sunlight they get. The larger the leaf, the more of the sun's rays it can soak up. Large leaves are useful in collecting dew and rainwater. If you have a container to store water, simply angle a leaf into it overnight or during a rainstorm and you have some fresh drinking water in no time.

Cold Weather Survival - Basic Principles. It is more difficult for you to satisfy your basic water, food, and shelter needs in a cold environment than in a warm environment.

Cold Weather Survival - Basic Principles

Even if you have the basic requirements, you must also have adequate protective clothing and the will to survive. The will to survive is as important as the basic needs. Handbook: Survival Skills - Cold weather survival. Handbook: Survival Skills - Cold weather survival. Desert Survival. Survival in the desert.

By David Alloway It's unfortunate that many people equate deserts with a hostile environment that conspires against human life.

Survival in the desert

In the popular media, desert areas seem to be. Instructions on Desert Survival Preparation. Wilderness Survival Guide: Basic Wilderness Survival Skills. The advances in the development of outdoor clothing, equipment, emergency food and techniques have been growing rapidly in recent years.

Wilderness Survival Guide: Basic Wilderness Survival Skills

For those beginners interested in using the outdoors there is unlimited information on wilderness survival skills and equipment available. However, experience is the best teacher in any outdoor situation and your reaction in a wilderness survival situation depends on your education. Always keep in mind that it can happen to you. Those who are mentally and physically prepared to survive are more likely to do so. To deal with an emergency situation one must be able to make decisions, improvise and remain calm.

Wilderness Survival. Generally speaking, "survival" falls into one of two broad categories: Staying alive until help arrives and you're rescued Living in the wilderness as a way of life The emphasis here is mostly on the second approach, although the two overlap, of course.

Wilderness Survival

The first approach would include, for example, how to utilize your vehicle for helping you to stay alive, advice on whether you should try to hike out back to civilization or not, and so on. There's very little of that kind of material here (at least so far). The focus here is on living in the wilderness in a primitive fashion. That means without guns, axes, other manufactured items, log cabins, and so on. Wilderness survival skills for safe wilderness travel. Edible and Medicinal Plants. The information on this page is presented in an older format.

Edible and Medicinal Plants

We have vastly expanded our edible plants information with far more information, and far more plants. You can find this information at our new site Wildcrafting.net Abal Calligonum comosum Description: The abal is one of the few shrubby plants that exists in the shady deserts. This plant grows to about 1.2 meters, and its branches look like wisps from a broom. Surviving Urban Disasters. Surviving Urban Disasters is an American reality television series that premiered on August 27, 2006 on the Science Channel.

Host Les Stroud demonstrates survival methods for urban disasters such as flood. The program is similar to Survivorman, a series also hosted by and starring Les Stroud and "Man vs. Wild" hosted and starring Bear Grylls that focuses on wilderness survival techniques. Episodes[edit] The limited-run series consisted of one episode. External links[edit] Les Stroud – official site. Financial and Socioeconomic News Update. Urban Survival – Do You have the 3 Things You Will Always Need? WTSHTF maybe you are prepared for an extended survival scenario away from civilization, but you have to get out of the city first (maybe). In a disaster situation that might not be so easy.

If you have these three things in place you will greatly increase your chances. 1. Get Home Bag (GHB) Imagine for a minute that you work downtown in a large city, maybe you ride the subway or take a bus to work everyday. But I have my Bug out Bag you say! Oh really, where is it? Even if you could get to your Bug Out Bag, how much good would it do you in this environment? First Aid Kits. 10 Ways to Survive a Snowstorm. There's no truer statement than the old adage "you can't control the weather. " You can't­ even predict it with complete certainty. As advanced as our meteorological forecasting techniques are these days, weather systems are changeable forces of nature.

They can come on quickly, switch direction without notice and build in intensity in a short period of time.