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Survival Skillset

Lesson 13 of 15

Lost: how people behave, how searchers think, stay or move

45 min

The stream should be flowing to your left. It is flowing to your right. You tell yourself the map must be a bit out, or that it bends round further down. The wall you expected is not there, but there is another wall, and walls all look the same. You walk faster. Forty minutes later nothing matches at all, the light is going, and you no longer know which way…

In this lesson

  • Recognising you are lost and stopping early
  • The warning signs
  • What to do
  • Common mistakes
  • How lost people actually behave
  • What lost walkers usually do
  • Different people behave differently
  • Many lost people do not answer
  • Where search teams look
  • How a search is planned
  • What this means for you
  • Staying put versus moving

The rest of this lesson is in the full course

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