Download or read book Surviving the World s Extreme Regions written by Chris McNab and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's elite soldiers can survive in the worst of conditions, whether the extreme heat of the desert or the snowy summit of a mountain. These units are trained to be experts in warfare, but their training also gives them the knowledge to live in the planet's wildest places for weeks at a time. Learn the techniques the world's finest soldiers use to survive in harsh conditions around the globe. Discover a variety of tips for surviving in barren deserts and freezing tundra. Find out how elite troops cope with danger and deprivation. You will also learn: • how to find water and food. • how to build shelters. • how to navigate. • how to perform first aid. • how to identify and avoid dangerous animals and insects.
Download or read book Surviving Hostage Rescue Missions written by Chris McNab and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the lives of hostages are on the line, the soldiers of elite hostage-rescue units must act quickly and with skill. In a chaotic situation, soldiers must rely on their training, and each other, to save lives in danger. Take a look at how elite hostage-rescue units operate. Find out about the equipment that elite soldiers use and the training they must undergo. Learn about the different skills elite soldiers use, including: • fast-entry tactics through doors and windows using explosives. • building attacks using assault ladders and mountain-climbing techniques. • rescues from inside an aircraft. • negotiation techniques to calm a situation. • clues that tell when a terrorist is lying.
Download or read book Ropes Knots for Survival written by Patrick Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you're in a survival situation, a rope can be useful or even vital. Knowing how to use a rope well in many ways and knowing how to tie a variety of knots can help with many things in the wilderness, from building a shelter to catching animals to eat. In addition, it's an indispensible skill to have if you need to climb up or descend a mountain. Soldiers around the world are trained to use ropes and knots in survival situations. In this book, you'll take a look at some of the techniques the best soldiers in the world practice, including: • how to take care of ropes. • the most useful knots to use in a survival situation. • how to make your own ropes from animal tendons or plants. • how to use your rope effectively. • how to lash together a raft made of saplings or logs.
Download or read book Surviving with Navigation Signaling written by Patrick Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In any survival situation, you need to know where you are and where you're heading. If you get lost, you'll waste valuable time and energy—time that could be spent getting to safety or getting help.
Download or read book Surviving Captivity written by Chris McNab and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a time of war, pilots face the risk of being shot down behind enemy lines and captured. For this reason, each pilot receives training to help him endure the stresses of captivity. During an interrogation, this training and the pilot's own strength and willpower are invaluable. This book discusses many of the techniques used to survive the experience of being in captivity. A captive pilot must be prepared to cope with boredom, resist interrogation, and work as a team with other prisoners. In addition, he must know how to go about escaping if he has the opportunity. Discover: • how some U.S. pilots in Vietnam coped with seven years of imprisonment. • how interrogators try to trick people into talking. • how interrogators are trained to detect lies. • survival techniques during escape. • tracking skills used by escaping pilots and the pursuing enemy.
Download or read book Survival Equipment written by Patrick Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being in the Special Forces means you will be taken all over the world for some of the most difficult missions, often to unfriendly places and dangerous regions. Elite soldiers must be trained to survive anywhere, whether in the endless deserts of Africa or the freezing tundra of the Arctic. Soldiers need to know how to survive for weeks or even months at a time. They must also know how to survive with as few supplies as possible; after all, in the wilderness, you can't drop by the store to resupply! Find out what equipment elite soldiers need to have with them to survive. Discover how to improvise equipment using only the natural resources around you. Learn: • what clothing to wear in hot and cold climates. • what equipment to carry. • what a survival tin is and what's inside it. • how to make your own tools and clothing. • how to survive hostile terrains.
Download or read book Surviving Natural Disasters written by Patrick Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people experience a natural disaster at some point in their lives. Whether it's a tornado powerful enough to tear a building apart or a wildfire destroying an entire forest in a matter of hours, it's important to know how to survive in these situations. Regardless of what kind of natural disaster you might encounter, you need to be prepared. Learn some of the ways in which elite soldiers around the world deal with these terrifying events. Discover how to tell when certain disasters are about to strike, as well as how to respond during and after the disaster. This includes: • what to do when a tidal wave is approaching. • how to prepare your home for floodwaters. • what to do if a forest fire traps you. • how to shield yourself from massive lava bombs released by volcanoes. • how to survive mudslides.
Download or read book Surviving by Trapping Fishing Eating Plants written by Patrick Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite forces are often assigned to secret missions behind enemy lines, which means they have to spend time in the wilderness. They need to be prepared to live off the land for long periods of time to keep from being detected. Therefore, an important part of elite soldiers' training is how to live in remote areas and how to get food from the plants and animals around them. Discover some of the ways in which the armed forces survive in these conditions. Learn: • how to set traps to catch small animals like weasels and rabbits. • which fish can be caught with an improvised line and bait. • which plants and fungi can be eaten. • how to spot poisonous flora and fungi.
Download or read book The Extreme Weather Survival Manual written by Dennis Mersereau and published by Weldon Owen International. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast facts and practical advice to keep you prepared, whether you’re dealing with mud or flood, drought or derecho. This valuable, comprehensive guide is full of life-saving information for virtually any extreme weather event—blizzard, hurricane, firestorm, tornado, heatwave, and beyond. Weather reporter Dennis Mersereau, working with the editors of Outdoor Life magazine, debunks common myths, provides hands-on survival tips (some of them literally hands-on—as in, don’t lose your fingers to frostbite), and shares some fascinating historical facts and world records. Learn how to: Read a weather map Survive in a snowbound car Stay oriented in a whiteout Make waterproof matches Avoid lightning hot spots Rescue someone caught in a flood Know your monsoons Survive a sandstorm Make peace with the polar vortex Drought-proof your home and much more “Don’t mess with the Mersereau. He will find your weather fables and he will crush them…We need more Dennises. In fact, the National Weather Service itself should be run by Dennis, with each local office headed by a Dennis-like weather blogger tasked with explaining the relevant weather news of the day, and entertaining us when the weather is boring.”—Slate
Download or read book Survival at Sea written by Chris McNab and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite soldiers must know how to survive in every environment, including if they're stranded on the harshest ocean. Special Forces units trained to survive at sea are some of the most knowledgeable people in the world when it comes to a survival situation in the ocean. In this book, you will learn some of the techniques these soldiers use to stay alive at sea. You can learn from their training and discover: • what to do when a shark attacks. • how to tell when a storm is coming. • how to swim so that you save energy. • how to signal for help in the middle of the ocean. • how to treat a jellyfish sting. • how to build a raft out of logs or saplings.
Download or read book Learning Mental Endurance for Survival written by Chris McNab and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite Special Forces units are often assigned to the most difficult missions. They must be prepared for the challenges they will face. This means being skilled and physically fit, but it also means being mentally tough. During most basic-training programs, recruits will be yelled at by instructors, deprived of sleep, and forced to run for miles. Under these difficult conditions, they will be required to make constant decisions. Only the toughest recruits will graduate, and they need certain traits to make it through: • intelligence • self-control • courage • knowledge • resistance to pain and discomfort • team spirit
Download or read book Survival First Aid written by Patrick Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite soldiers often operate in hard-to-reach locations or far behind enemy lines. If one of them is injured, medical attention is rarely readily available. For this reason, soldiers must be trained to treat injuries themselves. This book will show you how to treat some of the most common injuries and illnesses that you're likely to get in the wilderness. Whether it's a small problem like a blister or a major health concern like a heart attack, it's important to know how to deal with any injury or medical problem. Learn how to: • treat someone who has eaten a poisonous plant. • set broken legs after a climbing fall. • deal with hypothermia, when the body's temperature drops dangerously low. • provide treatment for severe burns. • stop a person from bleeding to death.
Download or read book Survival in the Wilderness written by Chris McNab and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people find themselves out in the wilderness at some point in their lives, even if they're just heading out for a camping trip. If the worst happens and you're stranded away from civilization, it's important to know how to survive. The elite forces of the world are trained to survive in the most hostile of environments. They can teach you some of the techniques they use and equipment that you'll need. Some of the tips they offer include: • Use swarming insects to tell you where water can be found. • Determine whether a plant is poisonous by the color of its berries. • Move wet stones away from a fire (they can explode). • Don't build a shelter too close to a river (it could flood). • Make signals by cutting out shapes in vegetation.
Download or read book Surviving the Extremes written by Kenneth Kamler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Surviving the Extremes brings personal experience and scientific knowledge together beautifully, giving us narrative that are powerful, moving, and very real." -Oliver Sacks A true-life scientific thriller no reader will forget, Surviving the Extremes takes us to the farthest reaches of the earth as well as into the uncharted territory within the human body, spirit, and brain. A vice president of the legendary Explorers Club, as well as surgeon, explorer, and masterful storyteller, Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years discovering what happens to the human body in extreme environmental conditions. Divided into six sections—jungle, high seas, desert, underwater, high altitude, and outer space—this book uses firsthand testimony and documented accounts to investigate the science of what a body goes through and explains why people survive—and why they sometimes don’t.
Download or read book Surviving Extreme Weather written by Gerrie McCall and published by MBI Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information from disaster organizations and real-life examples to demonstrate how to survive in extreme weather conditions.
Download or read book Surviving the Extremes written by Kenneth Kamler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A physician, NASA consultant, and expert on the extreme conditions that confront the human body journeys into six inhospitable environments to examine the reaction of the body to heat, cold, pressure, starvation, and exhaustion and its own innate survival strategies.
Download or read book Surviving Extremes written by Nick Middleton and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant read... that illustrated the strong will and determination of man in the face of everything that nature had to throw at us' Wanderlust Nick Middleton, the intrepid Oxford don, explorer and author of Going to Extremes is back, and he's set himself a challenge to cope with the worst that nature can throw at him in Surviving Extremes. Travelling to four of the most extreme natural environments: swamps, deserts, jungles and arctic wastelands, the question is, can he pick up enough tips from the indigenous people to hack it at the very edge of human existence, or will his mid latitude sensibilities forever let him down? This is Nick's account of how he had to put his body and mind to the test in a unique survival experiment.
