Published December 5, 2011 05:53PM
Survival: True Reader Escapes
Seven lucky-to-be-alive subscribers share their real-life backcountry disasters. Heres how they survived, and what you can learn from their mistakes.
'Survival scenarios (by J. Dombrowski)'
Caught in a Flash Flood
Escape Plan:Get High and Avoid Quicksand
Uncontrolled Slide Down an Icy Slope
Escape Plan:Cross Summer Snow
Charged by a 500-Pound Grizzly
Escape Plan:Use Bear Spray Safely
Flipped, Soaked, and Freezing
Escape Plan:Treat Hypothermia
Can’t Breathe at High Altitude
Escape Plan:Recognize HAPE
Struck by Lightning
Escape Plan:Reduce the Risk of a Strike