What is Modern Wilderness Survival?
Modern Wilderness Survival teaches the skills need to survive a Short-Term or Medium-Term survival situations
“Modern Wilderness Survival teaches the proper skills need for Survival”
Modern Wilderness Survival teaches the skills need to survive through Short-Term (1 to 4 Days) and Medium-Term (4 to 40 Days) Survival Situations. The skills taught are scientifically based and designed to eliminate potentially life threatening survival situations that are likely to occur. They normally emphasizes Short-Term Survival Techniques (1 to 4 Days) concentrating on life saving basic skills. Modern Wilderness Survival teaches practical wilderness survival skills concentrating on survival physiology, survival psychology, clothing, fire lighting, shelter building, useful survival equipment or Critical Items, and the preparation for a potential survival situation. Avoiding or mitigating a survival situation should always be part of that preparation.
Many skills taught on survival courses are often unneeded or of little use in the short or medium term. Some skills sets like Tracking or Escape and Evasion have nothing to do with wilderness survival. Wilderness travel skills and basic tool building are often taught on courses, but always with the emphasis on practical useful skills that may be needed to survive. Modern Wilderness Survival is all about teaching the proper skills really required to survive an unexpected wilderness emergency or survival situation, i.e. the skills need for Survival.