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Survival Skillset

Lesson 1 of 12

Staying warm: how you lose heat and what to fix first

40 min

It is three in the afternoon in November. You twisted an ankle an hour ago on the descent, the drizzle has turned to steady rain, and the wind is coming over the ridge from the south-west. You have stopped to think. You are sitting on a wet boulder in a wet jacket, and within ten minutes you start to shiver.

In this lesson

  • Shelter is about heat, not a roof
  • The five ways heat leaves you
  • Which one is killing you fastest?
  • Sweat is the hidden enemy
  • Decide early, in daylight
  • Insulation from the ground
  • How to build ground insulation
  • Common mistakes with ground insulation
  • Bough beds and browse beds
  • Building a bough bed
  • Where the material comes from
  • Common mistakes with bough beds

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.

Original price was: £149.00.Current price is: £99.00.

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