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Surviving a Wilderness Emergency by Peter Kummerfeldt
Practical advice on what to do when you find yourself in trouble in the backcountry.
Learn the skills needed to survive an unplanned night out. Surviving a Wilderness Emergency provides you with a wealth of field tested techniques and procedures to use when you are faced with protecting yourself from the elements. Practical methods of surviving, not primitive skills, are addressed.
They include:
- Survival Psychology
- Survival Myths and Misconceptions
- Staying Found
- Survival Medicine
- Impact of Weather
- Selecting of Clothing
- Emergency Gear
- Emergency Shelters
- Fires and Fire Building
- Rescue
Peter Kummerfeldt grew up in Kenya, East Africa, and came to America in1965 where he joined the U.S. Air Force. He is a graduate of the Air Force Survival Instructor Training School and served as an instructor at the Basic Survival School: Spokane, Washington, the Arctic Survival School: Fairbanks, Alaska, and the Jungle Survival School: Republic of the Philippines. He also served for twelve years as the Survival Training Director at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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