With explanations and illustrations, this work covers the five basic elements of survival - personal protection, signalling, finding food and water, travel, and health, providing the reader with information on how to stay calm and alive until rescue arrives. It features information on keeping yourself safe and healthy in the wilderness.
How To Recognize, Treat, And Prevent Emergencies In The Backcountry
The award-winning guide to medical training for wilderness rescue and self-care Wilderness First Responder is a comprehensive text for the recognition, treatment, and prevention of backcountry emergencies, written by wilderness expert Buck Tilton with more than a dozen medical professionals. Thoroughly updated and revised, this teaching manual ......
Knowledge, Skills and Fundamentals for Every Adventurer
Wilderness 101 is the companion guide for new adventurers. Aimed at preventing newcomers to the outdoors from ending up in "survival" situations due to a lack of preparedness, this guide will impart introductory knowledge and skills to readers applicable across a range of potential activities, and useful for anyone heading into the backcountry.
Have you ever thought about raising chickens, keeping bees, grinding your own flour, or starting your own compost pile? If so, then this is the book for you!
Traditional, or simply, trad climbing, is a do-it-yourself adventure requiring the climbing team to negotiate the climb and to carry, hand-place and remove most if not all components of the roped safety system. In The Trad Climber’s Bible, two of the most revered and respected trad climbers in the world, John Long and Peter ......
A Fundamental Approach to Finding Missing Persons, Insurgents, Guerrilla
Tracker. The very word evokes images of buckskin-clad braves crouching over the ground, carefully studying the signs before them—a part of history. But the modern world has not put behind it the need for the earthy business of tracking. Such skills are still routinely used by the military, rescue personnel, and law enforcement, as well as by ......
Venture into an animal's life story through its tracks and signs. More than simply determining where an animal crossed the road, tracking can lead to a study of how the animal uses its habitat, how it travels, where it feeds or hunts, how it breeds and raises its young, and how it survives. In this book, leading tracking expert Jim Lowery distills ......
