survival lab

Think a Snickers bar can hold your weight? Our man puts desperate-times deaden to the test.

Learn to make basics tools with what you can find in the backcountry.

Drop Dead Ted puts all sorts of survival whistle options to the test.

DIY firestarter - perfect for camping.

Learn to find food in the wild.

Drop Dead Ted builds an emergency shelter using a blanket, some duff, and his bare hands.

If you don't have any water, you may need to wring it out of the land around you. Find out how as Ted teaches you how to use a transpiration bag. If you don't have any water, you may need to wring it out of the land around you. Find out how as Ted teaches you how to use a transpiration bag.

Have a puddle of putrid water--or nothing to drink besides your own pee? Drop Dead Ted shows you how to build a backcountry solar still that'll make pure water out of just about anything wet.

Drop Dead Ted's demonstration and tips for collecting water from moisture-covered leaves and grass.

Drop Dead Ted explains the basics of rescue signaling and picks his favorite survival whistle from his testing lineup.

Backpacker's survivalist everyman, Drop Dead Ted, explains how to aim and signal for help with a reflective mirror.

Drop Dead Ted shows you how to carve a feather stick to help start a fire in a surivival situation.

Drop Dead Ted shows you how to carve a feather stick to help start a fire in a surivival situation.

Drop Dead Ted puts the latest and greatest survival knives to the test.