A crisis is no time to experiment with survival skills. It’s a time for action—a time to execute techniques you’ve already mastered. Do you feel prepared? Confident? Knowledgeable? If the prospect of ...

A sense of creativity can help in a lot of ways on Alone. For starters, the contestants can only take 10 approved items from History’s gear list with them to their drop site. None of those items are ...

A few hours watching the Discovery Channel can prompt extreme survival fantasies involving frog licking and urine drinking, but what basic skills would you actually need to survive in the wilderness?

This story originally featured on Outdoor Life. Modern survival gear can make any emergency easier to navigate, but what happens when you get caught in a perilous situation without it? These 10 ...

Knives are invaluable tools in the outdoors, so it’s important you know all the ways to use them. Markus Spiske/Unsplash This story was originally featured on Outdoor Life. Anyone who spends time in ...

If you spend your weekends and vacations outdoors, especially for extensive periods of time and in distant or backcountry locations, survival books aren’t only useful, they might just save your life.