Preppers are representatives of a subculture who deliberately find themselves in extreme situations. The movement originated in the United States and has gained prominence throughout the world in recent decades. The goal is to emerge unscathed from difficult natural conditions and strengthen character. A “hobby” requires dexterity, courage and determination.

Life in the wild. Survival Instructions

Bear Grylls

The name Bear Grylls is strongly associated with survivalism (from the English survive - survive). The host of the famous TV show “Survive at Any Cost” made an invaluable contribution to the popularization of the direction, demonstrating perseverance and courage while crossing the jungle, subtropical and icy deserts.

In the book, the traveler and conqueror of Everest shares his considerable experience: he gives advice on selecting equipment taking into account climatic conditions, talks about choosing a place to set up a tent or hut, about tools that are indispensable on a hike (a knife and an ax), about finding food and making fire.

Natural Survival School

Andrey Ilyin

A reference book for amateur extreme sports enthusiasts. The author begins the work by listing survival factors. The will to live and control over one's own fear is a mandatory requirement. Physical training plays an important role: for an intolerant and weak person it is better to postpone the trip for an indefinite period and start jogging, hardening and pull-ups. The first chapters, devoted to self-rescue tactics, talk about terrain orientation and distance estimation.

Ways to search for water sources are analyzed, methods for disinfecting water and making a fire are described. Steps to provide first aid are listed. Ilyin shares the peculiarities of actions according to climate conditions: tactics of behavior in the desert, forest and taiga vary greatly. The publication is addressed to a wide range of readers: absolutely anyone can get stuck in a deep forest.

Prepper's Handbook

Nikolay Naydenov

A concentrate of useful information in a small and compact book. The author notes the importance of composure, memory training and the right way out of your comfort zone. Instructions are given on four points: finding shelter, getting rid of hunger, quenching thirst, finding warmth.

Signs of improvement and deterioration of weather, methods of determining cardinal directions by stars, sun, moon, trees and anthills are described in accessible language. Signaling skills and the ability to cross rivers and swamps can save lives. Any tourist must know the rules of protection from wild animals: bears, wild boars and wolves. Separate sections are devoted to hunting and fishing.

Ways of autonomous human survival in nature

Mikhailov L.A.

A textbook for cadets of higher educational institutions of law enforcement agencies. In a military style, the features of survival in case of emergencies, natural disasters, and autonomous existence in natural zones of the subtropical, tropical and arctic zones are clearly and concisely outlined.

Attention is paid to all aspects of the state of emergency: psychological adaptation, maintaining health in the event of mechanical injuries and poisoning. Questions for self-control help to consolidate the material. The knowledge gained in school life safety lessons is being improved.

36.6 degrees. The art of staying alive

Cody Lundin

The American instructor's manual became a bestseller in the West. The publication is colorfully illustrated and written with humor. The author skillfully directs the reader's gaze to important things. First of all, the specialist focuses on individual emergency supplies, collected independently, as opposed to commercial preparations. A small bag holds the essentials: a first aid kit, a flashlight and wax matches that light under any circumstances.

The main enemy of a survivalist is fear. For primitive people, excitation of the central nervous system and the “fight or flight” response helped preserve life. Stress interferes with modern man: the body becomes exhausted, weakness appears, and metabolism is disrupted. Lundin writes how to control yourself and calm your fellow travelers, and overcome hypo- and hyperthermia.

Survival techniques in extreme conditions

Alexander Stilwell

A guide to surviving anywhere in the world using the British special forces method. The important point is careful preparation. Otherwise, the very first trip may end in failure. Before setting off, you need to familiarize yourself with the experience of experienced survivalists and gain basic medical, biological and topographical knowledge.

The compiler touches on topics ignored by other experts: rock climbing, setting traps, forming knots, building rafts.

Background information about most countries of the world is provided.

Arctic, Antarctic and Taiga

Dmitry Ivanov

The encyclopedia is devoted to the issues of rescue in severe frost conditions. Taiga, tundra and rugged Siberian forests are often chosen as departure points by preppers from the former USSR. Sled dog racing in the Russian Arctic is increasingly gaining popularity as a tourist destination.

Permanent frost forces you to act cunningly, build strong shelters, build a long-burning fire and use a “natural refrigerator.” Snow makes it easier to quickly find the nearest populated area by following human tracks.

Cool survivalist's book

Fedorchenko K.V.

After finding a shelter and building a canopy, another problem appears - food. Supplies are rapidly running out. In a difficult environment, a person needs to regularly make up for the calorie deficit. The collection begins with short tips to help you mentally prepare for the tests.

In the following sections you can find methods for fuel extraction, disinfection and water filtration. Numerous recipes for camping dishes are given. The reader gets acquainted with edible and inedible plants, berries and mushrooms, learns to distinguish them from each other. The ability to hunt and set snares is considered invaluable. In extreme cases, some insects can also be eaten.

Tourist medical guide

In 1952, the French doctor Alain Bombard learned about another shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea. All persons on board became casualties, although they were on spare boats. Having set off on a solo voyage on a rubber boat, the biologist decided to prove: in the middle of the ocean you can survive without provisions. The main thing is to gather your will into a fist and overcome mental weakness.

As a result, the Frenchman crossed the Atlantic Ocean, defeating cold, hunger, storms and sharks. The book is written in a journalistic style, without clericalism and complex scientific terms. The Frenchman’s story amazes the imagination, inspires heroic deeds, and proves the almost limitless capabilities of the human body.

Afanasyev’s book “To help the partisan.” The book gives advice on survival in occupied territory and waging guerrilla warfare in this territory. The book contains a lot of tips regarding survival. Published by the Military Publishing House of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR

Encyclopedia of survival. One on one with nature

A large encyclopedia of survival in extreme situations. The book talks about how to survive in the wild.

Encyclopedia of extreme situations

A book on survival in extreme situations, this book contains tips on how to survive in various situations. Moreover, both very unlikely ones - for example, military operations, and very possible ones - a car accident or, say, a fight. There are a lot of tips, I recommend reading the book.

The art of survival

The Art of Survival is a book, or rather a collection of very interesting articles on survival from various books and forums on the RuNet.

Life in the wild

Survival instructions from Grylls Bear. A large selection of tips and instructions for survival from a practitioner and traveler, the founder of television programs on survival in the wild.

08
Oct
2016

Encyclopedia of survival in extreme situations. How to save life (Andrey Ilyin)

ISBN: 5-04-006918-9
Format: PDF, OCR without errors
Andrey Ilyin
Year of manufacture: 2001
Genre: Textbooks, reference books, encyclopedias
Publisher: Eksmo-Press
Russian language
Number of pages: 384

Description: This book contains the basic knowledge of human self-rescue in various extreme situations. From it you will learn how to correctly give a distress signal, what you can do and what you absolutely cannot do, how to navigate the terrain, what and who you can eat, how to use the most ordinary things in an emergency situation, how to provide assistance and maintain presence of mind in the most, seemingly hopeless circumstances.

The book will help you not only survive, but also save others.

04
Mar
2014

A textbook for survival in extreme situations. Experience of special units of the world (Peter Darman)

ISBN: 5-8153-0223-6
Format: PDF, DjVu, Scanned pages
Author: Peter Darman
Year of manufacture: 2001

Publisher: Yauza
Russian language
Number of pages: 352
Description: The book talks about how to survive in various emergency situations: in the desert, taiga, jungle, in the Far North. You will learn how to find food, start a fire, provide first aid to yourself and your comrades, as well as much other useful information gleaned from SAS special forces manuals. Detailed pictures explaining the creation of the simplest weapons, means of catching...

29
Aug
2009

Kuropatkin Dmitry - Secrets of street martial arts - How to defeat any opponent in extreme situations

ISBN: 5-7905-3133-4, Martial Arts

Year of manufacture: 2005
Author: Kuropatkin D.I.
Genre: Various
Publisher:
M.:RIPOL classic
Number of pages: 192
Description: A street fight is a fight without rules, in which the victory is often won by not the strongest, but by a more dexterous and cold-blooded opponent. There is no specific street fighting technique. All the defensive and offensive techniques recommended in this book are the result of a fusion of many of the most effective fighting techniques. This publication is recommended primarily to people who strive...

17
Oct
2014

The Complete Guide to Survival in Extreme Situations in the Wild, Land and Sea (John Wiseman)

ISBN: 978-5-17-045760-1, 978-5-271-17738-5
Format: PDF, Scanned pages
Author: John Wiseman
Translator: Yu. Suslov
Year of manufacture: 2011
Genre: Textbooks, reference books, encyclopedias
Publisher: AST, Astrel
Russian language
Number of pages: 576
Description: John "Lofty" Wiseman served in the UK's Special Air Service (SAS) for 26 years, and his book is based on the training techniques of this world-famous elite unit. This practical guide shows how to survive in the wild, in all climates, on land and at sea. Designed for everyone who...

08
Sep
2015

How to defeat any opponent in emergency situations. Secrets of special forces (Sergey Kashin (comp.))

ISBN: 978-5-386-07748-8
Format: PDF, FB2, eBook (originally computer)
Author: Sergey Kashin (comp.)
Year of manufacture: 2014
Genre: Martial arts and combat sports
Publisher: RIPOL classic
Series: The Art of Real Combat
Russian language
Number of pages: 256
Description: The modern world is full of dangers. How to fight back against criminals and protect yourself and your loved ones? This publication fully answers the questions posed thanks to a large number of practical recommendations. At the same time, it is absolutely not necessary to be a special forces soldier or a professional athlete. The book covers a wide...

25
Oct
2018

How to Keep Love in Your Marriage (John Gottman, Silver Nan)

ISBN: 978-5-496-00723-8
Format: FB2, eBook (originally computer)
Author: John Gottman, Silver Nan
Year of manufacture: 2014
Genre: Relationship Psychology
Publisher: Peter
Russian language
Number of pages: 387
Description: This book was written for those who are just about to get married, and for those who have been living with their spouse for decades. In this wise and long-awaited book, the famous psychologist and family consultant John Gottman reveals the secrets of love: Where does love come from? Why do some people continue to love when the relationship no longer exists? And where does love disappear? Gottman spent decades researching...

28
Jun
2015

Encyclopedia of Extreme Situations (Antonio Akkermans, Bill Mattos, Bob Morrison, Harry Cook)

ISBN: 978-5-8029-2042-8

Author: Antonio Akkermans, Bill Mattos, Bob Morrison, Harry Cook
Translator: Elena Mishchenkova
Year of manufacture: 2008
Genre: Textbooks, reference books, encyclopedias
Publisher: Arkaim
Russian language
Number of pages: 141
Description: What to do if you are in trouble: outdoors, in the city or at home? This book tells you: How to survive on land and in the air, on water and in the wilderness; How to survive in different climates and in the wild: how to build a shelter and find water, how to make a fire and get food, how to protect yourself from...

25
May
2012

How to save a family? (Ilya Shugaev)

Author: Ilya Shugaev
Year of manufacture: 2012

Publisher: Charity project "Hand"
Performer: Dmitry Chursin
Duration: 02:41:36
Description: The Church says that the husband is the head of the family. “But there are almost no such husbands left,” object contemporaries, “and to submit to a despot tyrant is terrible; therefore women cannot be in that Christian obedience.” This mentality is the main reason for the discord in family life. Where is the truth?

20
Apr
2012

How to save a family (Shugaev I.V.)

ISBN: 978-5-88017-215-3
Format: PDF, DjVu, DOC, OCR without errors
Author: Shugaev I.V.
Year of manufacture: 2011
Genre: Family psychology, popular psychology
Publisher: MP Publishing House
Russian language
Number of pages: 81 / 98 / 81
Description: It is commonly said that the husband is the head of the family. “But there are almost no such husbands left,” object contemporaries, “and to submit to a despot tyrant is terrible; That’s why women can’t put up with this distribution of roles.” This mentality is the main reason for the discord in family life. Where is the truth?
And most importantly: how to extinguish growing family conflicts? On the pages of...

01
Oct
2013

Personality in extreme conditions (Lebedev Vladimir Ivanovich)

Format: audiobook, MP3, 128kbps
Author: Lebedev Vladimir Ivanovich
Year of manufacture: 2012
Genre: Psychology
Publisher: DIY Audiobook
Artist: Unknown
Duration: 12:12:56
Description: Doctor of Psychological Sciences V.I. Lebedev, known to many for his books “Psychology and Space”, “Psychological Problems of Interplanetary Flight”, etc., in this material summarizes significant experience in studying the characteristics of psychological activity in extreme conditions (space and aviation flight , sailing on submarines, being in polar zones, etc.). In this regard, I analyze...

16
Feb
2010

Extreme driving. Driving a car in critical situations. (E.S. Tsygankov)

08
Dec
2007

How to be a rat - the art of intrigue and survival at work (J. Sgrijvers)

Genre: audio course
Author: J. Sgrijvers
Publisher: Olimp-Business
Year of manufacture: 2006
Duration: 05:45:38 Tired of hearing about the habits of highly effective managers? Can't do something in a minute? Here is your antidote to all management books. Learn about a way to influence people and achieve career goals - listen to the audio course "How to be a rat." Using cunning, dark humor and incredible insight, the author explores the dark sides of modern business. It illuminates those corners of the office that many companies would prefer to hide. This is the place where envy nests...

Russian language
Number of pages: 192
Description: The book tells about the history of inventions in the field of heat engines from ancient times to the present day. This story is full of drama. Many outstanding inventors ended their lives in poverty, having experienced the collapse of all their hopes, others quickly became celebrities, and in the lives of others, successes and failures went hand in hand. Book of...

11
Jul
2013

V.V. Pokhlebkin - Great encyclopedia of culinary art. All recipes by V.V. Pokhlebkina (V.V. Pokhlebkin)

Format: DjVu
Year of manufacture: 2001
Genre:
Author: Ilyin A.A.
Publisher: EKSMO-Press
Number of pages: 384
Description: How to survive in the wild? Everyone asked themselves this question when they left the city. This book largely answers that. I will be glad if it is useful to everyone. A person who finds himself in a deep, endless forest, on a deserted sea coast, on a dangerous mountain path can and should survive. This is the deep conviction of the author of this book, which tells in an accessible and detailed way about ways to survive in extreme situations. From it you will learn what needs to be done in difficult circumstances, and what...

In the zone of armed conflicts

Armed conflicts on Russian territory still do not subside. The most difficult situation is in the North Caucasus. The civilian population is also actively drawn into armed conflicts. Overt acts of terrorism, murders, robberies, looting in conflict zones, rapid, uncontrolled arming of the civilian population - all this creates the preconditions for local conflicts to escalate into large-scale actions, the destructive consequences of which are difficult to predict. The problem of hostages, refugees and internally displaced persons has become acute. in these difficult conditions, people’s lack of basic knowledge and survival skills in zones of military conflicts led to unjustified casualties.

The book contains the basic knowledge of human self-rescue in various extreme situations. After reading the book, you will learn how to properly give a distress signal, what you can do and what you absolutely cannot do, how to navigate the terrain, what and who you can eat, how to use the most ordinary things and save presence of mind in the most seemingly hopeless circumstances. The book will help you not only survive, but also save others.

From the introduction: “A forced landing or landing (splashdown) with a parachute after an airplane accident can occur in a deserted area, far from populated areas. Wherever an accident occurs, search planes and helicopters will immediately come to your aid. If, due to some circumstances, you find yourself in conditions of autonomous existence for some time, REMEMBER: a favorable outcome depends on you, on your ability to survive. To survive means to act actively, purposefully, using emergency equipment and available means, skillfully applying knowledge and experience to protect against the effects of adverse environmental factors (high and low air temperatures, wind, solar radiation), obtaining water and food, etc. . Finding yourself in a deserted area, before making any decision, first calm down, collect your thoughts and evaluate the current situation. REMEMBER everything you know about surviving in such conditions.”

The textbook systematizes the basic rules, norms, patterns and methods of ensuring life safety in conditions of autonomous human survival in nature.
The textbook is compiled on the basis of a large amount of theoretical and practical material developed by a group of special forces veterans, combatants, psychologists who study the impact of extreme situations on humans, teachers of educational institutions of higher and secondary vocational education and secondary school teachers. It is intended for students studying the organization of human security in emergency situations, specialists from law enforcement agencies and rescuers, as well as for residents of our country living in remote regions and in areas at risk of being autonomous due to extreme natural conditions. The material presented in the textbook can be useful to athletes, forestry and fishery workers and all those who are interested in forestry.
The publication is fundamental for the training of security specialists, bachelors in the Life Safety profile, cadets and students of all higher educational institutions of law enforcement agencies.

After reading this interesting guide, you will be able to navigate and behave correctly both in anomalous zones and during moments of exposure to anomalous phenomena.
The amazing and mysterious can be both majestic and attractive, and deadly dangerous. The purpose of this book is to teach how to survive not just in difficult conditions, but in abnormally difficult ones.

The textbook addresses the issues of teaching students to survive in conditions of forced autonomous existence in the natural environment. The situations of autonomous human existence in the natural environment are systematized. The necessary recommendations for organizing actions, ensuring the life of a person (group) in various extreme situations, and methodological recommendations for teaching the necessary skills and abilities are given. Since tourism helps to feel the impact of all natural factors on human activity, prepare him for independent actions and develop the necessary skills for this, the manual pays special attention to the issues of organizing and conducting tourist trips.
For students of pedagogical universities. It will be useful for students of tourism and other universities, as well as teachers of general and additional education for children.

In the book, the reader will find the answer to any question regarding the preparation and implementation of both a simple tourist trip and a complex, dangerous journey.
In addition, it describes the peculiarities of movement and survival in various climatic zones, seas and oceans, and describes plants and animals that pose a danger to humans. It also contains extensive information about the provision of medical care in case of illnesses and accidents, from which, unfortunately, no traveler is insured.
Separate chapters are devoted to the features of mountain, water, cycling and skiing.

E The Mushroom Picker's Encyclopedia is a unique publication containing interesting information about a wide variety of mushrooms, including little-known ones. The book provides detailed descriptions of over 400 types of mushrooms - edible, conditionally edible and poisonous, and with a "tasty" twist - original recipes for cooking mushrooms. The reader will learn a lot about the methods of processing and storing these gifts of nature. In addition, the encyclopedia will teach you how to grow mushrooms yourself.
N and colored inserts present “portraits” of 200 of the most common, as well as little-known species of mushrooms.
TO The book is intended for a wide range of readers.

Legendary traveler and survivalist Bear Grylls shared with us the secrets of survival in the wild. But he didn’t let me take a bite of the bear’s liver. Even in exchange for a squirrel.

Text: Oleg “Orange” Bocharov
Illustrations: Sergey Radionov

Imagine: a plane crashes into the jungle, you are the last surviving passenger, you need to overcome three hundred impassable kilometers to the nearest Internet cafe in order to send a tweet “I’m alive!” and die. Although no, plane crashes are rare, let’s take a more realistic option: your yacht crashed on the rocks in the Gobi Desert, and the only food here is sand and cholera bacilli. What are your chances of survival? Chuck Norris of the 21st century - British traveler Bear Grylls assures that they are great.

When you watch a Discovery Channel show about extreme survival (there is no other way to call it), Bear Grylls seems like a magician. It looks something like this: “In front of you is the corpse of a penguin that I found in the mouth of a volcano. It is slightly burnt, but the fur is still beautiful. Look, just a couple of strokes of the knife - use only a boiled knife! - and the dead penguin turns into an excellent warm sheepskin coat with a zipper and a hood.”

But it should be recognized that Bear’s advice is basically simple, and the concept of survival comes down to three understandable theses: protection, provision, salvation.

Bear now proves the realism of survival techniques in the most obvious way possible: he seeks out real stories of miraculous rescues and reconstructs them. Yes, in front of the camera, but honestly, without cheating. If any Peruvian who escaped from captivity ate only hummingbird eggs and spent the night in snake holes, rest assured: in the new program “Bear Grylls: Get Out Alive” Bear will do exactly the same throughout the entire journey.

And yet, MAXIM magazine does not exist to retell TV shows (you can see them yourself). Our mission is to steal the most valuable experience from Grylls and give it to you.

Protection

So, you woke up in the middle of Siberia, the Amazon or the Sahara. Your thought... no, not “I want to eat and drink” and not “Take me away from here.” Do you want to live? The number one goal is to protect yourself from cold, sun, water, wildlife and injury.

There are no single recipes for all cases of attacks by snakes, tigers, scorpions and sharks. This is bad news. There is good news too. It turns out that wild animals almost never climb into tents where people live and sleep, so if you manage to build not just a tent, but a full-fledged shelter with a roof and walls, you don’t have to wait for guests. The exception is bears, who strive to climb into a tent, but only if food is stored there: they can smell an ordinary apple or a basket of raspberries from afar. Therefore, it is clear that food should be kept only outside, and the farther from the camp, the better.

The picture shows a diagram of a simple construction of a hut based on a lying tree (we found this and other architectural projects in Grylls’ book “Life in the Wild”). Only this type of construction does not require ropes, much less nails; all you need is a fallen trunk lying approximately one meter above the ground, as well as branches and grass for the roof.

By the way, the more extensively you build your camp, the greater the chance that it will be discovered by rescuers. But we will return to this later.

Of the natural shelters from bad weather and animals, the most reliable are caves and overhanging cliffs. Caves are not nearly as cozy as we think from cartoons about cavemen - most of them are disgustingly damp, cold and dark. You can’t just light a fire there either: the cave will be filled with smoke and the neighbors will have to call “01”, but it will be too late. Bear Grylls points out that caves with bats are especially dangerous: their droppings are contagious and cause histoplasmosis (fever, cough and death-death-death). You can sleep under a cliff relatively calmly, but first feel the soil: if it’s dry, then the rain won’t reach you. It’s a pity, but it is precisely under such cliffs that there is often a very unpleasant draft (due to the Venturi effect), so you need to either wrap yourself up or fence yourself off with walls.

When you wake up in the morning, shake your clothes thoroughly before moving on, as snakes or insects may have crawled into them. By the way, many small creatures actually do not want to meet a person and attack only if you bump into them.

Therefore, in regions with an abundance of snakes, it is better to move with maximum noise so that they have time to crawl away.

This may sound strange as advice to a dying tourist after a crash, but you should keep yourself clean. Dirt on the body and sweaty clothes accumulate bacteria and insects, which are often no better than a plane crash. We do not encourage you to shave once a day, but from time to time, bathing, washing clothes and cleaning your shoes is a definite plus in the karma of a survivor.

If your shoes have rubbed a callus, do not rip off the sore - let it remain as it is. But try not to get blisters at all. If you wipe your feet with alcohol (it makes the skin rough) and put moss in your shoes, you can prevent calluses.

The temperature inside your body should not fall below 28.8 °C and rise above 42.7 °C*, otherwise death. And death is bad.

*- Note from a warthog named Phacochoerus Funtik: « By the way, do you know how a person knows at what temperature he will die, how long he will last without water, food, air? No, this is not a computer prediction. During World War II, the Japanese created a top-secret experimental camp of Unit 731 in Manchuria, where inhumane experiments were carried out on captured Chinese, Mongols and Russians. This is where most of these statistics come from. »

DIY forecast

█ The best misfortune is a predicted misfortune. If the sky is red in the evening, it means that the rays pass through dust raised by high pressure. High pressure (warm dry air) does not promise storms, the weather will be fine.
█ But if the sky is red in the morning, then the area of ​​high pressure has moved towards the sun, to the east, it will soon be replaced by low pressure, and with it rain, melancholy and sadness will most likely come.
█ Rain is also foreshadowed by a halo around the luminaries (moon and sun): high clouds contain ice crystals. And cirrus clouds portend the same thing. Surprisingly, a rainbow can also be useful: if it is on the windward side, then the rain is moving in your direction.

Or a hearth made of two stones.

An ordinary person, even someone as smart and beautiful as you, loses more than three liters of water per day (urination, sweating and breathing). What’s even worse is that in the cold, water is just as necessary as in a hot desert: in the cold, a person urinates much more often, since the body does not want to waste energy on heating the excess fluid in your bladder. And your body is right in this case. Bear Grylls insistently tells everyone: you need to drink before you start to feel thirsty.

The following figure shows a diagram of a simple earthen drainage basin, about a meter in diameter. The pit is covered with plastic film (you press it to the ground with stones), in the center of which a load is placed. Moisture, rising from the ground, accumulates on the film below and flows into a helpfully placed glass.

If you are lucky enough to find a natural source of water, be extremely careful to boil it anyway. In the book “Life in the Wild,” Grylls describes a case when a guy drank water from a crystal clear mountain stream and after that became disabled. He had no idea that a hundred meters upstream in this stream lay the corpse of a sheep.

Let's say you're the unluckiest person in the world and all you have at your disposal are dirty puddles and goat's hooves of water. But what is it? You are no longer the unluckiest person in the world, because you found an old issue of MAXIM in your pocket and read these lines in it: “Build an improvised three-layer filter. Place a layer of fine sand at the bottom of the bag, put a layer of small pebbles on top, and large stones on top. After passing through these three layers, the filtered water flows into the container placed below. Add syrup and gas to taste.”

The rescue

Rescue involves two goals: moving in the right direction and sending distress signals.

The arsenal of ways to notify rescuers is scarce and has not changed for the last hundreds of years. Bonfires with thick black smoke, sunbeams, posting inscriptions and notes in bottles. They say that in good weather, the smoke from a powerful fire can be visible 50 kilometers away. A night fire can be seen from the air 20 kilometers away. But did you know that three fires located in a triangle at a distance of 10–20 meters from each other are officially considered a distress signal? This way the helicopter pilot will understand that you are really in distress, and not having fun grilling moss kebabs in the tundra to the sounds of the “Vladimir Central”. Keep several unlit fires ready, as well as a torch, which you can quickly use to set them on fire.

Ditch the portable camping church and grab a dozen compasses. If you don’t find any, remember where the North Star is, pointing to the north, or, if you are in the Southern Hemisphere, find the Southern Cross and mentally make its lower crossbar six times longer - there will be a landmark to the south.

The last thing you might need is calculating distances. There is a Naismith rule: in an hour a person walks about 5 kilometers, the time will increase by 30 minutes for every 300 meters of ascent. Let’s say the length of the path is 15 kilometers, 500 meters of which are uphill. This means you will spend 4 hours on the road.

A well-known anomaly: moving from landmark to landmark is easier for a traveler than stupid, purposeful movement forward. Just remember that your eye is a big deceiver. Any object seems closer if the day is very sunny or if you are standing below it, and also when all the objects around the object are small. In poor lighting, the landmark, on the contrary, seems more distant.

Well, you survived. Having covered half a thousand kilometers, you returned home, where your wife is waiting for you with a rolling pin and the question “Where have you been?” And here we already need other survival skills, which we already write about every month. But all to no avail.

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We find a dead seal.