If you want to be prepared for any crisis or emergency that might come your way, one of the first places to start is with yourself. You don’t need to be any kind of fitness fanatic to prepare – but your fitness for prepping can take you a long way towards achieving your state of…
Even if primordial the art of Tracking is still utterly valuable in our everyday life. Reading tracks (and signs, although microscopic sometimes!) of men, animals and vehicles allow us not only to collect essential data to reconstruct what happened in a specific time/place frame and why, but also to reinforce our situational awareness and, consequentially,…
A knowledge of first aid is one of those indispensable skills that last a lifetime, and which may literally save a life – whether in the normal course of daily life or under the emergency conditions imposed by some natural or man-made disaster. So, what skills do you need and what goes into your first…
If you’ve ever watched the popular personal survival programmes – hosted by the likes of Bear Grylls or Ed Stafford – on the television, you might have asked yourself whether the skills on display are just so much entertainment or whether they might actually be of any use to you. Step back for just a…
So, you thought prepping was just a question of doing some shopping, laying down the stores, closing the doors, and waiting until the inevitable calamity happened? How wrong you would be! All the carefully stocked food in the world and all the gadgets and equipment you might have assembled is going to be precious little…