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Month: June 2020

Arctic General Survival 

Surviving Alone in Alaska

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JOHN MARTIN: Hi, my name’sJohn Martin. I’m the publisher ofVice Magazine. We had heard about thisguy named Heimo Korth. He lives in an area called theAlaska National WildlifeRefuge, ANWR for short. Heimo’s one of themost impressivepeople I’ve ever met. He is almost totallyself-sufficient, and he’s oneof those guys that couldsurvive no matter what. Now here it is. Vice presents Heimo’sArctic Refuge. VOICE ON RADIO: Four. Visibility one, zero. Patchy fog. Few clouds. at 5,000. 6,000, scattered. Temperature minus 2. Dew point minus 2. Anaktuvuk. Pass, wind zero, one, zero. At…

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Arctic General Survival 

Dude vs. Wild – The Arctic

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My name is Ryan Higa andI’m going to be survivingall by myself in the Arctic, with nothing but the clotheson my back and chest and armsand pretty much all my clothes,while teaching you thenecessary tips and techniquesto survive in the freezing Arcticwith nothing but the clothes on my back. Right now, we’re in the Arctic!This is no place for fun and games. Hold on!You do not want to get lost out here. The Arctic terrain is completely unforgiving. If you get lost out here, you’ll be sorry. The Arctic terrain…

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Arctic General Survival 

She Stayed in the Arctic for 5 Months All On Her Own

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You know it’s just amazing — We humansare exceptional creatures! Our bodies cansurvive falls from huge heights, extreme temperatures,and even weeks without food. But some survivalstories literally make your blood run cold,and such is the story of Ada Blackjack, ayoung woman who spent 2 years on a bitterly-coldArctic island, unprepared for such an ordealand mostly on her own. In 1921, 23-year old Ada Blackjack found herselfon an Arctic island, far away from civilization,in the company of four men and a female catnamed Vic. An unlikely scenario by all means,so how…

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General Survival Shelter 

How to build an igloo for overnight snow camping

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Hello there! Welcome to the Northwest Sisu Outdoors YouTube channel!I hope you are doing great today, and I hope you will enjoythis video about building a real wilderness igloo!if you have trouble understanding my accent,you can always turn on closed captioningIt is winter here in the Pacific Northwest andthat means, it is time to build an igloo!The last two winters I have built igloos in my front yard,very cool ones, with features such as windowsmade of ice, and cozy little stoves. But those igloos were more a typeof recreational igloosand…

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General Survival Shelter 

How An Igloo Keeps You Warm

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For thousands of years, humans, and plantsand animals long before that, have been usingfrozen “sky water” to keep warm. Which sort of doesn’t make sense. Because snow is cool. You might even say it’s… ice cold. YEEAAHHHHH!No one knows for sure who built the firstigloo, but with the right fit and the rightphysics, snow can actually warm you betterthan the inside of a tauntaun. “You’ll be ok, Luke!”So, how can something cold keep you cozy? The vast, frozen Arctic is one of the mostforbidding environments on our planet, yet,the Inuit…

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Fire 

5 Weird Ways To Start A Fire

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– Today we make fire. – Let’s talk about that. ♪ ♪- Good Mythical Morning!– All right, Mythical Beasts, we need youto keep tweet-voting so that we can winshow of the year at the Streamys!- We can do this!– Yeah!All you gotta do is to tweet “I’m voting for #GoodMythicalMorning for show of the- year at the #Streamys. “– Yes. – A hundred times. You can do it a – hundred times a day!Okay, thanks for that. Now, one of thethings that has separated us from therest of the animal…

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Fire 

How To Make a Fire By Rubbing Sticks

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This might be a situation you never thoughtcould happen, but here you are cast away ona deserted island with nothing but the clotheson your back. In this project we’ll be makinga survival fire by rubbing sticks together,because if you can do that, you’ll have amuch better chance of being found alive. Looking around the island, the first thingyou notice are plenty of coconut trees andat the base are some old coconut husks. Thosemight come in handy. There’s also plenty ofwood lying around, so you just need to finda dry piece…

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Fire 

Primitive Technology: Firesticks

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With my hut completed, next I needed fireFor fire sticks I used a fast growing softwood The spindle and baseboard came from the same branchScrapping bark off with a stone flakeThe sticks were left to dry on a sunny rock to dry outCandle nut leaves were used for tinderDrilling holes in the baseboard with a stone bladeCarving a notch from the hole to let the hot wood powder to fall outThe base board is placed on the tinder with a stick separating them so more air can get to the…

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Fire 

How to Start a Fire in a Survival Situation | Basic Instincts | WIRED

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– Fire is one of the most importantand powerful of theprimitive technologies. It unlocked all sorts of potentialsfor us on every level. My name is Bill Schindler. I’m a professor ofarchaeology and anthropologyat Washington College anda primitive technologistand experimental archaeologist. Fire probably started as some sortof a natural phenomenon,like a lightning strike. A forest fire would havedrawn our attention,we would have seen it and probablystarted to realize thebenefits of fire over time. We could probably smell the cooked meatof the animals that weretrapped in that fireand not only died, but…

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