“Here’s my definition: Survival is the ability and desire to stay alive, all alone, under adverse conditions, until rescued. Survival is an attitude.” – Peter Kummerfeldt
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Peter Kummerfeldt’s Wilderness Emergency Management List
Generally speaking, if you haven’t learned survival skills by the time you need them, you won’t have time to learn! But this emergency management list from survival expert Peter Kummerfeldt gives you a step-by-step progression of what to do in an urban or wilderness survival situation from the instant you realize you are in trouble.
Read the rest of this entry »Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
“Deep Survival” is a great tool to help establish the survival mindset that is critical to becoming a survivor.
Read the rest of this entry »Scientists Reveal the Real Reason Why We Walk in Circles When Lost
Now, the popular belief that people in unfamiliar surroundings tend to walk round in circles has been confirmed by scientists. Good info here from the “Times Online.”
Read the rest of this entry »S. T. O. P. You’re Lost!
by Leon Pantenburg Here’s the scenario: You walked further down that interesting-looking trail than originally planned and the sun is starting to set behind the mountains. An unsettled feeling in your stomach starts to get worse, and becomes a knot. The knot twists tighter as you realize you don’t have a clue where you are. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »About Leon Pantenburg
Leon Pantenburg is a wilderness enthusiast, and doesn’t claim to be a survival expert or expertise as a survivalist. As a newpaperman for three decades, covering search and rescue, sheriff’s departments and outdoor emergencies, Leon learned many people died unnecessarily or escaped miraculously from outdoor emergency situations when simple, common sense may have changed the outcome. Leon now teaches common sense survival techniques to the average person in order to avert potential disasters.
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