Adventure is a desire that comes innate to many human beings
. There are a lot of people who say no to live a normal life and set off to explore the adventurous world in the wilds. Such individuals load themselves with backpacking gear and move on to extraordinary wild places. However, outdoor camping supplies are not the only things one needs to survive in the wilderness. One has to be fully equipped with the basic survival skills.
Learning survival skills is not only essential for people who like to live on camps, but also for everyone else. Life is unpredictable and you never know when you would be caught in a situation worse than a day at boot camp and it happens daily when people are stranded in remote places without resources and are not able to call for aid. Only two things can help in getting out of such tough situations, one is sheer luck and second is a special skills that can assist in surviving on your own.
Let's take a look at few basic skills that you are required to learn in order to become victorious in such testing times.
Shelter: In a situation when many worst enemy turns out to be the weather and surroundings, it is essential to build yourself a shelter that can not only protect you from the weather but also from creatures that might harm you and others. Hence, knowing how to make yourself a rufuge with few resources in the bad climatic conditions is extremely important to survive the location.
Fire: This is possibly the only one of four elements that was created by man rather than discovered. Moreover, it was the element that gave humans a winning advantage over wild animals in the pre-historic times. It is necessary for cooking, keeping the environment warm and threaten away animals. And, it is important to learn how to make fire in any condition and with less resources.
Food and water: You might have seen and heard instances of people eating insects and other winter things during their unfortunate stay at wildest places. It is strange how they keep from getting themselves poisoned by eating the harmful kind of food? This is because they know what exactly the appropriate food to find at a place is. Looking for food is also a skill that everyone must understand in order to stay alive in such situations.