By environment
Each environment has its own rules, traps and hidden resources. Forest, desert, mountain, sea, city…
The same move can save you in a forest and kill you in a desert. Here, everything is specific.
The temperate forest
The most generous environment in the world can also swallow you in ten minutes: here is how to read it instead of fearing it.
Mountains: Where the Weather Decides for You
The weather changes in thirty minutes, altitude works against you, the terrain is unforgiving: the signs to read before it's too late.
Snow, extreme cold, and the Far North: surviving at minus 30
Cold doesn't kill you: humidity, exhaustion, and panic do. What you need to know to stay alive below zero.
Desert: water, shade, and keeping still during the day
It isn't 45 °C because there's no shade: it's 45 °C, and on top of that, there's no shade. The difference is paid in liters.
Jungle: everything grows, everything rots, everything stings
Here water is everywhere yet you can still die of thirst, the ground crawls with everything, and what will kill you is almost never what you fear.
At sea: shipwreck, life raft, and water everywhere but not a drop to drink
The boat has sunk, you are floating in water you can't drink: what you need to do in the next hour.
The Coastline: The Shore, a Pantry That Rises and Falls
Twice a day the sea retreats and serves you a free buffet; twice a day it returns, faster than a galloping horse, waiting for no one.
Rivers, lakes and whitewater
A river can guide you back to civilization or drown you in thirty seconds: it all depends on whether you know how to read it before stepping foot in it.
Marshes, bogs, and mangroves: water everywhere, ground nowhere
Here, nothing is solid, nothing is drinkable, and nothing is what it seems: the environment that requires the most methodology, and the least improvisation.
Caves and Underground: Total Darkness
A shelter that never moves seems like a no-brainer — except underground, almost everything that would save you elsewhere turns against you.
Desert Island: Real-life Robinsons
Nobody ever had to suck a coconut husk to find water: real Robinsons dug, caught rainwater, and held out for years. Here is how.
Savanna and bushveld: the land of big game
Lions kill fewer people than hippos, and mosquitoes kill more than all other animals combined: the savanna shouldn't be read through the lens of popular fears.