Our Survival Skills posts are the core of SUMMIT°. This is everything you need to get out of any situation alive.
We won't waste time telling you you need water, so we’ll move on to more important questions: where can you find water? How do you know it’s safe? What do you do if it’s not? Read on …
Knowing how to start a fire (and keep it going) in any condition is among the most essential survival skills. Here are the basics.
Do you have a survival attitude? Of all the skills + resources that determine your survival, having the right attitude is by far the most important.
Learn the 9 easiest, most effective ways to purify water, no matter what survival situation you find yourself in.
Foraging edible plants is a great way to secure nutrition in the wild. Plants can be harvested by hand and prepared quickly. Many don’t even require cooking.
Knife-sharpening is an essential skill that every outdoorsman/survivalist should master. Here's how: …
This starter guide to North American poisonous plants will give you a head start in what we can only hope is your goal of not dying in the woods.
This is how you escape zip ties like a pro (bottom line: friction is your friend).
Know what to expect when your car suddenly dies in the snow … in the middle of nowhere.
Don’t throw out that soda can or walk past the litter near your campsite — learn how to turn that garbage into survival gold.