Danger Zones/Escape Plans
Worst Nightmares
Killer Hikes
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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.
Spotting animals is a highlight of backcountry travel—unless they attack. Learn how to escape 22 dangerous species.
Don't let the desert–or swamps, cliffs, jungles, glaciers, or other potentially dangerous landscapes–be your end.
From hypothermia to heatstroke, the elements kill in myriad ways. Protect yourself with 34 tips on wind, rain, snow, and more.
Watch your step. Trips and tumbles are the number one cause of backcountry deaths.
A hiker's worst enemy is the earth's downward pull. Here's how to prevent falls, and survive rockslides and avalanches.
"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.
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.
Because nothing's scarier than nature out to get you
