Outdoor Survival

In February 2019, award-winning writer Alex Roddie left his online life behind when he set out to walk 300 miles through the Scottish Highlands, seeking solitude and answers. In leaving the chaos of the internet behind for a month, he hoped to learn how it was truly affecting him - or if he should look elsewhere for the causes of his anxiety. The Farthest Shore is the story of Alex’s solo trek along the remote Cape Wrath Trail.

Year-Round Harvest: Mastering Four-Season Homesteading by Charles Martin is a comprehensive guide that takes listeners on a transformative journey toward self-sufficiency and sustainability throughout the year. This book is a valuable resource for individuals aspiring to create and maintain a thriving homestead that can withstand the challenges of all four seasons. Martin, an experienced homesteader and expert in sustainable living, shares his wealth of knowledge in this accessible and practical guide.

Tony Howard rose to fame in 1965 as a member of a group of young climbers from northern England who made the first British ascent of Norway's Troll Wall. Tony went on to design the modern sit harness, now used universally by every climber in the world. Tony has dedicated his life to travelling the world in search of never before climbed rock faces and remote trekking adventures. The scale of his travels is vast. Quest into the Unknown, the last word in adventure travel, is the jaw-dropping account of a life of adventure that is the very definition of true exploration.

Solo circumnavigation of the globe. Fewer than 300 sailors in history have accomplished it, less than the number of people who have climbed Mt. Everest, or even those who have gone to space. In 1990, Istvan Kopar set out to earn his place among this elite fraternity - and to do so with only one stop.

Always be prepared: essential tips and tricks for keeping safe in the outdoors with Survive.

Peruvian climber Silvia Vasquez-Lavado spent a lifetime running away from trauma. As a child she suffered sexual abuse, and as an adult, she struggled with both her sexuality and addiction. In spite of her private battles, Silvia climbed many of the world's greatest peaks. But she had yet to take on Everest. In the Shadow of the Mountain tells Silvia's story of abuse, addiction and trauma and then how, in 2016, she gathered a party of six sexually abused girls, and together they began the two-week expedition to Everest Base Camp.

On Christmas Eve 2013, off the coast of East Antarctica, an abrupt weather change trapped the Shokalskiy - the ship carrying earth scientist Chris Turney and 71 others involved in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition - in a densely packed armada of sea ice, 1400 miles from civilization. With the ship's hull breached and steerage lost, the wind threatened to drive the vessel into the frozen continent, smashing it to pieces.

This is a short book that was written for anyone with an interest in making their own weapons for hunting, fishing, and self-defense when surviving in the wild. All the eight weapons described in this book can be made inexpensively and easily, both for the die-hard survivalists, and the average camper who wants to be able to catch their own food and protect themselves if necessary. As you'll learn, there are many different make weapons for hunting, fishing, and self-defense.

Bushcrafting is the ultimate weapon to train your mind to think and plan ahead, while nurturing your problem-solving skills, enhancing your basic instincts, and reinforcing your part in nature. In Pure Survival, you will discover in-depth guidance to survive and thrive in the wild, exactly how to begin your preparations, as well as all the tools you must have in order to be prepared for any potential challenge, how to make your own primitive tools from natural resources to understand better how our ancestors used to live, and more.

Discover the power to unleash your child's potential and fan the spirit of adventure, even if the wilderness is your backyard! Is your child fueled by an insatiable curiosity for wilderness and survival? Does the thought of camping, be it in the backyard or beyond, spark their excitement? Do you dare to immerse your child in nature and equip them with the life skills they won’t find in school textbooks? Navigating the wilderness doesn’t have to be daunting or riddled with danger. You see, the art of survival doesn’t require you to go to extremes. Even if you live in a city and have ...

As the Boy Scouts of America will attest, Cliff Jacobson wrote the book on campsite cooking. Basic Illustrated Cooking in the Outdoors is the official handbook for the Boy Scouts' cooking badge! A veteran of the outdoors and a guide of young people into remote areas of both Canada and the United States, Cliff Jacobson knows more about the routines of cooking than most adventurers. His unique ideas and sensible solutions to typical campsite dilemmas will make food stay edible longer and taste better.

This audiobook will teach you the techniques to not just survive, but to use ingenuity and household items to solve your problems scientifically with a bit of primitive know-how thrown in. A complete and detailed section covers thoroughly the topic of survival trapping using modern snares, deadfalls, conibear traps, and primitive snares.

Dans Instinct de survie, Gabriel Filippi, l'un des plus grands alpinistes du Canada, décrit le parcours stupéfiant qui l'a amené à affronter la beauté sublime de la nature et la cruelle indifférence du destin. Moments forts, exploits remarquables et pertes dévastatrices ponctuent un récit passionnant qui se déroule sur six continents.

Named one of Time Magazine International's 30 most important people of 2005, Maud Fontenoy presents us with a terrific, entertaining adventure story on the high seas as she challenges the Pacific Ocean - a feat no woman before her ever accomplished. Already the first woman to row alone across the North Atlantic, Maud raised the bar to defy the elements, the daunting solitude, and the circling sharks of the South Pacific on her second solo voyage.

Structured Chaos is Victor Saunders’ follow-up to Elusive Summits (winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize in 1990), No Place to Fall and Himalaya: The Tribulations of Vic & Mick. He reflects on his early childhood in Malaya and his first experiences of climbing as a student, and describes his progression from scaling canal-side walls in Camden to expeditions in the Himalaya and Karakoram.

Teach yourself evasive wilderness survival! Learn everything you need to survive in the wild while escaping your enemy, from stealth movement to covert shelters to finding food and water while on the run, and everything in between. Evasive survival is the hardest type of wilderness survival there is, and the best type to learn. Discover all the evasive survival skills you need, because if you can survive under these circumstances, you can survive anything. Get it now - your ultimate wilderness survival book.

Amid all the foreign adventurers that throng to Nepal to scale the world's highest peaks, there exists a small tribe of mountain people at the foothills of Himalayas. Sherpa tells their story. It's the story of endeavour and survival at the roof of the world. The story dives into their culture and tells of their existence at the edge of life and death. It traces their story pre- and post-mountaineering revolution, their evolution as climbing crusaders with never previously published stories from the most notable and incredible Sherpas of the last 50 years.

Il rapporto dell'uomo con la montagna è antichissimo. La montagna, spesso ostile e pericolosa, l'ha protetto dai pericoli, gli ha permesso di cogliere il mondo dall'alto, nel suo insieme, di guardare il cielo e sentirsi più vicino all'infinito. È il luogo in cui l'uomo ritrova sé stesso, spingendosi oltre i propri limiti, nella solitudine delle cime, pur in mezzo ai compagni di cordata. Questo audiolibro è un mosaico di storie di eroi che si sono distinti sulle vette più alte del mondo, realizzando imprese eroiche, salvataggi rischiosi.

What is the connection between crawling through a jungle and your ‘to do’ list? What can ejecting out of a stealth bomber teach you about the importance of thinking the worst? What can surviving in extreme situations teach us about surviving everyday life? John Hudson, Chief Survival Instructor to the British Military, knows what it takes to survive. Combining first-hand experience with 20 years of studying the choices people have made under the most extreme pressure, How to Survive is a lifetime’s worth of wisdom about how to apply the principles of survival to everyday life.

In today's unpredictable world, being prepared for any emergency is crucial. Whether it's a natural disaster, extreme weather conditions, or a medical emergency, having a well-stocked 72-hour emergency kit can make all the difference in ensuring the safety and survival of yourself and your loved ones.