If we are to believe the survival manuals and the “how-to-survive” articles published in the popular outdoor press, building a shelter from natural shelters in an emergency should be a piece of cake!  After all, look at all the trees, bushes, bark and other natural materials you have got to work with! by Peter [...]

Author Leah Waarvik is a search-and-rescue professional who works as part of a canine team to find missing people in the wilderness. She wrote “I Sit and Stay” after hearing stories of children who were lost and unprepared. The book is intended to initiate a discussion between adults and children about the main teaching points. The title says it all: Teach your lost children to stay in one place and await rescue

In an instant, the backpacking trip in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains turned from an idyllic family outing to every parent’s nightmare. One moment, my son Daniel, 16 months old at the time, was playing around the campsite. In the next, despite the supervision of four adults, he had vanished.

  I met survival expert Peter Kummerfeldt during one of his “Myths of Survival” presentations at the Central Oregon Sportsmans Show several years ago. With no idea of who this guy was, or his abilities, I sat in on the seminar out of curiosity. At the end of the hour-long session, I followed Peter back [...]

“It is far safer not to get caught out in a thunderstorm than to try to protect yourself once the storm has started!”

Being able to carry sufficient water is a survival must. Dehydration can cause you to collapse in the heat or in the cold, and it can kill you. Every survival kit should have some way to carry and purify water.

I believe dehydration is the number-one factor that causes accidents-and thereby survival situations,” Peter Kummerfeldt said in a 1999 “Field and Stream” interview.

The most common reaction at the onset of an emergency is disbelief and denial.
Most people won’t know what to do, and a large percentage will do the wrong things!

By Peter Kummerfeldt I was driving to Soda Springs, Idaho, this past week to present a risk management program.  My wife was driving and at one point, we were following several other slower vehicles while waiting for a chance to pass, when an oncoming eighteen wheeler drifted toward the double yellow line before returning his [...]

During a flood, there may be water everywhere, but none to drink. Here’s some survival tips on where to find potable water during the disaster.