To survive as a group, activity must be organized so energy won’t be wasted. Just because you are more people in a survival situation don’t mean that you will have an easy time. The more people, the more difficult and confused the situation will seem, and hereby the greater the group’s problems will seem. All […]

All survival situations are different regarding the order in which you need to use the different survival skills, but a general guideline is to think in blocks of time. The first 24 hours of survival are critical. You have to make an initial estimate of the situation, weather, terrain, time of day, available recourses and […]

The positive mind-set is quite important. You could also call it “the will to survive”, although you might call it “attitude” as well. Basically it means that you need the right attitude to survive. The positive mind-set is not enough; you will also need different skills to survive. I’m concentrating on seven skills to survive. […]

The Survivor Survivor originates from the old French term Sourvivre. Survivre translates to; live longer or longer than. The French term originates from the Latin term Super vivere. Super translates to; more or more than. Vivre translates into; to live. So you could say a survivor is a person who is willing to live more […]