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Survival Skillset

Lesson 2 of 12

Choosing a site: the five Ws

40 min

Two walkers come down off the fell late on an autumn evening, tired and keen to stop. In the valley bottom there is a perfect patch of flat, short grass beside the beck, sheltered by alders, out of the wind. They pitch there. By two in the morning their tent is white with frost while the hillside fifty metres above them is several degrees warmer, and by dawn, after rain…

In this lesson

  • The five Ws
  • Wind
  • Water
  • Widowmakers
  • Wildlife
  • Wood
  • The extras
  • Cold air, frost hollows and the thermal belt
  • How to read it
  • Common mistakes
  • Flood, tide and rockfall
  • Flood

The rest of this lesson is in the full course

Every module, practical and exam, self-paced and private, with a certificate at the end.

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