SurVivAl SkiLls

Essential in life-threatening wilderness situations and useful to impress mates on camping trips, it never hurts to brush up on your survival and bushcraft techniques.

Time spent in the mountains undoubtedly gives us a stronger connection to nature and transports us back to a simpler existence away from the cocooning bubble of technology. Bushcraft takes us that one step further and revives the lost skills of survival, while deepening our understanding of the wild. You can learn how to forage, create fire, make tools, navigate by the stars, identify plants and learn to track animals. For a more adrenaline-fuelled approach to survival, there are plenty of courses and adventure days that will teach you more extreme and dynamic survival skills, like climbing rock faces, abseiling into deep mine shafts, and canoeing fast-flowing rivers. Whichever kind of survival course you choose, you’ll gain confidence in your abilities and a greater awareness of your environment – skills that you can take back into your hillwalking and everyday life.

The king of bushcraft survival skills, Ray Mears.

Of course, you need to remember to pack the square battery in the first place for this to work.