Kill it with fire! They are the fuel for endless moments of terror. They have their own phobia and have been the focus of countless horror movies. Yet these creatures are not some Hollywood-generated alien beasts. They are spiders. To some, the ...
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Climbing Movies: The Best and Worst of All Time
Ascending mountains and battling the forces of nature just to say “I did it” or "because it's there" as the famous climber George Mallory said when asked why he wanted to summit Mt. Everest. It's fraught with danger and that makes it naturally the ...
New Garmin Foretrex With Ballistic Software: Details and Specs
Garmin’s Foretrex series has been the industry standard for wrist-mounted GPS navigators for a while, and the next generation has just arrived. The Garmin Forerex 801 and Foretrex 901 Ballistic Edition are more capable, tougher, and easier to use ...
Survival Movies: 10 of the Best Flicks About Struggling to Stay Alive
This post contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission if you buy through these links. Throughout history, humankind has chronicled gut-wrenching tales of heroic survival. We humans understandably have a fascination and obsession with ...
Wild Skydiver Rescue: Instructor Pulls Unconscious Man’s Chute
Remember that part in Point Break when Johnny Utah pulls the ripcord on Bodie's parachute as they plummet toward the terra at terminal velocity? This video of a skydiver rescue (below) was posted a couple of years ago for the first time and is again ...
How To Keep Food Cold Without A Fridge: Power Loss Survival
I doubt there is a single person reading this who doesn’t have a refrigerator in their home. Some of you may even have a fridge with a freezer plus another freezer for long-term storage. The low temperatures a good refrigerator and freezer provide ...
Survival Gear Everyone Should Have, Plus Urban Survival Tips
When a frail, leathery man covered in grease from burned whale blubber staggered into a whaling station on the coast of Antarctica, the Norwegian workers couldn’t believe their eyes. The men who worked along the rugged coast knew as well as anyone ...
New Knives From the 2023 SHOT Show
SHOT Show isn't just about guns and ammo, it's also one of the biggest venues for new knives and knife companies every year. Almost every major knifemaker shows up as do a whole lot of small bladesmith shops that always have something exciting and ...
Polar Bear Attacks Remote Alaskan Village — Kills Woman, Toddler
Update Jan. 19, 2023: The victims of the fatal polar bear mauling in the tiny village of Wales, Alaska have been identified by authorities as Summer Myomick of Saint Michael and her 1-year-old son, Clyde Ongtowasruk. In a rare and tragic animal ...
How to Start a Fire Without a Lighter
You’re cold and hungry, and you just pieced together a hasty shelter. You need to get a fire started to dry off and stay warm through the night, so you grab your trusty lighter out of your pack. You’ve used it for years and it’s never let you down — ...
Jeremy Renner Likely Saved by Tourniquet After Plowing Accident
UPDATE, Jan. 4: Since initial reports of the accident Renner posted a photo on his verified Instagram account Tuesday with the message: “Thank you all for your kind words. I’m too messed up now to type. But I send love to you all."Soon after, ...
Vehicle EDC And Recovery Gear: The Top Five Tools For Travel
Vehicle EDC and recovery gear are vast subjects. It is dependent on the capabilities of the vehicle as well as the environment that it will be operating in. There are some commonalities that we can address to increase our chances of getting home ...
How To Stay Warm Without Power: Forget the Indoor Trashcan Fire
As many Texans experienced firsthand in 2021, the loss of power during extreme weather can lead to some dire circumstances. More than 4.5 million people lost power for several days, leading to hundreds of deaths and $195 billion in property ...
Car Stuck in the Snow? 10 Tips for Survival
A relaxing drive up to the mountains to play in the snow seemed like a perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Just a nice leisurely drive up the canyon road to visit Old Man Winter. While building snowmen and pelting your girlfriend with ...
Man Kills Kodiak Bear Inside Neighbor’s House with a 12-Gauge
For many serious big-game hunters, killing a Kodiak bear — the largest brown bear on Earth — is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Hunters often save for years and travel thousands of miles to check off this bucket-list experience. Retired ...
Nuclear Attack Survival Kit: Be Prepared for the Worst
“No nukes” was a cute catchphrase coined in the 1960s, but we’re not living in a nuke-free world. Russia’s weapons of mass destruction are constantly in the news again today. North Korea’s nukes are always a hot topic. And in 2018, Hawaii residents ...
Coyote Attack Roundup: 8 More Reasons to Hate On Yotes
Everybody loves to hate coyotes. Since Lewis and Clark first “discovered” Canis latrans on their trailblazing exploration of the frontier, Americans have had a high-key beef with the animal the explorers dubbed a “prairie wolf.” That beef continues ...
How Emergency Water Purification Tablets Work
Guaranteed access to clean water is not possible for most people around the world. Every human deserves clean drinking water, and with various methods available to neutralize pathogens possibly present in water, that’s certainly achievable. For ...
Survival Kit: How to Build and Organize One the Right Way
“Organization is correlated to efficiency, efficiency is correlated to productivity, and productivity is correlated to success,” I recall saying that as a teacher to my students over the years in both an academic classroom and an outdoor setting as a ...
Scouting an Area with Map Recon and Land Navigation
“Jesus, that’s Jason Bourne.” That quote from the popular Robert Ludlum series has become a derogatory smear online when someone makes a comment about “gray man,” “op sec,” or “non-permissive environments.” It seems like everyone is a secret agent ...
VSSL First Aid Stash and Stash Mini: Survival in a Can
Here’s the situation: You’re in the wilderness, and you’ve got a normal survival kit in a nylon pouch. You take a tumble — your flashlight gets crushed, your compass is cracked, and on your way down, all your matches, sensitive electronics, and ...
Hurricane Ian: Florida Sportsmen Answer Call for Help in Aftermath
In late September, Hurricane Ian slammed into the southwest coast of Florida as a Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds and cut a swath of devastation through the region. Weeks later, many are still without power or internet, flood waters have yet to ...
Grizzly Bear Attack: Wrestler Fights Grizzly to Save Teammate
Two college wrestlers had a “sudden, surprise encounter with a grizzly bear” while hunting for antler sheds on Saturday, Oct. 15. The young men were looking for horns in heavy cover west of the Bobcat/Houlihan trailhead in the Shoshone National ...
Rock Climber Wins Bear Fight Using Martial Arts
A lot of rock climbers love the sport for the adrenaline rush that comes with it — but most would say having to get into a literal bear fight during a descent is raising the thrill bar a little too high. A rock climber who was recently on Mount ...
Badass AK Hunters Kill Charging Moose, Shoot Massive Bull
When Tana Grenda and Alishia Zemlicka, two well-seasoned western hunters, were dropped into a remote area of the Alaskan backcountry, they were hoping for a chance to rest, recharge, and have fun. However, with hurricane-like weather, a near-death ...
Bear Proof Suit Documentary Clips From the ’90s Go Viral
The story is almost too good to be true: In the 1980s, a middle-aged Canadian man decided to spend his entire life savings on building an indestructible suit of armor that he could wear into battle against a wild grizzly bear. For about seven years, ...
Beat the Heat: How to Not Die in Extremely High Temperatures
There’s hot, and then there’s intolerably, dangerously hot. Knowing the difference when you’re headed outdoors for an early-season hot-weather hunt or even a hike can literally be a life-or-death matter. But sometimes, there’s nothing you can do to ...
Caribou Hunter Still Missing in Alaska; Sons Launch New Search
Missing hunter Steve Keel, 61, hasn't been seen for more than a week since he vanished while on a dream hunt for caribou in Alaska. Search efforts have turned up nothing, and now, his two adult sons are scouring the Alaskan wilderness in hopes of ...
SOF Medic on Wilderness Medicine Planning
Hunters spend hours e-scouting the backcountry in an effort to create a best-case scenario — a successful hunt. It’s high time they put an equal amount of time and effort into emergency planning and wilderness medicine training. According to ...
ATV Accident: How Rescuers Saved a Hunter Who Drove Off a Cliff
Los Padres National Forest sprawls across coastal California, with nearly 2 million acres of chaparral, Jeffrey pine, and white fir running up peaks that turn silver with sun or snow, but in the dark, it’s pretty black, which is probably why a hunter ...
