The online survival school — free and endless
Learn to survive.
Anywhere.
Water, fire, shelter, navigation, rescue — then every environment, its traps and its resources. Plus hundreds of tips nobody has ever told you.
The fundamentals, in the order life demands them
1Mindset: the key to everything
Before fire, before water, before shelter: what happens in your head during the first ten minutes.
2Water: Finding, collecting, and making it drinkable
Three days without water is the popular myth. The real question is where it's hiding and what's inside it.
3Fire: light it anywhere, keep it always
In the rain, on the snow, without a lighter: the physics of fire, techniques that work, and those that only work in the movies.
4Shelter: sleeping warm when everything is against you
Three hours. That's all the time you have left in cold rain if you don't get out of the wind and off the ground.
5Wild plants: eat without dying
You can last three weeks without food, but a single autumn crocus leaf will kill you: here is what you need to know, in this exact order.
6Field proteins: fishing, traps, insects, cooking
Large game is the stuff of dreams, but it's crickets, set lines, and snails that actually feed a lost survivor.
The same move saves you here and kills you there
The minutes when you must know without thinking
Skills you practice on a Sunday so they're second nature when the storm hits
Poncho drip sticks
On a poncho lean-to, rain follows the guy line and ends up inside the shelter. The US Army manual has you tie a small 10 cm stick onto each guy line, right before the tarp: water flows down to the stick, drips off, and never reaches the inside.
Cards to scroll through, a hidden question behind each one
The plant encyclopedia
Edible, medicinal, deadly — region by region, with the confusions that kill and a way to remember them.
The numbers that compare
Calories in acorns and crickets, wood that burns hot, sting pain, the body's limits: everything sorts, everything compares.
The world map
Where to live it for real: wild areas, legendary trails, bushcraft schools, with access, season and wildlife.
Decide fast
Which method for MY water, MY fire, MY shelter tonight? Three questions, the right answer.
Printable cheat sheets
The Lost & Alive Kit: twelve pocket sheets to laminate — signals, water, fire, hypothermia, deadly plants, knots.
Survivor stories
Ralston, Koepcke, Callahan, Shackleton… what saved them, told for what it teaches.
You don't learn survival by reading. You learn it by making mistakes — here, without dying.
Choose-your-own survival scenarios
Lost in the forest at 4pm in November, shipwrecked, stuck in the snow: choose, and see where it leads.
Myth or reality
Sucking out venom, drinking your urine, moss growing on the north side… Sort fact from fiction in a second.
The big quiz
Every question on the site, shuffled. Climb the ranks: Novice, Ranger, Woodsman, Legend.
The lookalike game
Edible or deadly? Two photos, one second to choose, then the criteria that tell them apart.
What kind of survivalist are you?
Eight questions, a profile, and the reading path that fits you.
Field tools
Water needs, watch-compass, morse code, bleach dosing, remaining daylight hours, my pack.
Those who came back
Aron Ralston: 127 hours trapped in a canyon
An arm trapped under a boulder, five days without rescue, and a decision no manual teaches: cutting oneself to live.
Juliane Koepcke: 11 Days Alone in the Jungle After the Crash
Seventeen years old, alone after falling three kilometers into the Amazon jungle, she followed a single rule: walk toward water.
Steven Callahan: 76 days adrift on a raft
A crash in the night, a sailboat sinking in a matter of minutes, and 76 days on a tiny raft reinventing survival.