The Survival Issue: Gravity
Falls trigger more backcountry deaths than almost ever other cause combined. Here's how to go up without tumbling down.
Danger Zones/Escape Plans
Worst Nightmares
Killer Hikes
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The Survival Issue: Terrain
Don't let the desert–or swamps, cliffs, jungles, glaciers, or other potentially dangerous landscapes–be your end.
The Survival Issue: You
To err is human, bt to err in the wilderness can get you in a load of trouble. Here's how to manage missteps and improvise fixes.
The Survival Issue: Wildlife
Spotting animals is a highlight of backcountry travel—unless they attack. Learn how to escape 22 dangerous species.
The Survival Issue: Weather
From hypothermia to heatstroke, the elements kill in myriad ways. Protect yourself with 34 tips on wind, rain, snow, and more.
Survival: Fall Zones
Watch your step. Trips and tumbles are the number one cause of backcountry deaths.
Danger Zones/Escape Plans: Gravity
A hiker's worst enemy is the earth's downward pull. Here's how to prevent falls, and survive rockslides and avalanches.
The Survival Issue: Saved by a Sock
"Improvise, adapt, and overcome." Bear Grylls and his crew lived by this mantra while filming episodes of Man vs. Wild. Here's how hikers can adopt it.
Survival Bootcamp
At the military's top-secret survival school, Air Force crews learn how to escape their worst-case scenario — shot down behind enemy lines. With the highest level of access ever granted to a journalist, our scout learns how to escape when Mother Nature is only one of your worries.
Boo! October Survival Issue Now Online
Because nothing's scarier than nature out to get you