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The 5 Survival Decisions People Always Get Wrong
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- Published on Mar 16, 2026
- Lost in the wilderness? Your instincts will try to kill you. These 5 survival decisions decide who walks out alive.
Decision #2 destroys your brain within hours.
Getting lost in the wilderness is not a gear problem-it’s a decision problem. Search and Rescue data shows that most hikers who die weren’t unprepared. They died because they followed instincts that felt logical but directly violated human biology and physics.
In this video, we break down the five survival decisions people always get wrong when they’re lost, and why Hollywood survival logic consistently leads to tragedy. You’ll learn why walking “just to keep moving” makes you nearly impossible to find, how rationing water quietly destroys cognitive function, and why prioritizing food before shelter leads directly to hypothermia.
We explain the real Rule of Threes, why following rivers often funnels people into deadly terrain, and why obsession with fire burns precious energy while insulation quietly saves lives. Each mistake is explained using physiology, thermodynamics, and real rescue outcomes, not myths or motivational advice.
This guide is designed for hikers, backpackers, and outdoor enthusiasts who want decision-level survival knowledge, not fantasy tactics. When panic hits and the map stops making sense, the choices you make in the first few hours determine whether the woods release you-or keep you forever.
- Lost in the Woods: When Instincts Take Over
- Decision #1: The Mobility Trap (Why Walking Kills)
- Decision #2: Voluntary Dehydration (The Silent Killer)
- Decision #3: The Hollywood Hunger Myth
- Decision #4: Why Following Rivers Gets You Lost Forever
- Decision #5: Fire Fixation vs Thermal Shelter
- Why Humans Make These Fatal Choices
- The Correct Survival Protocol (Recap)
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You can't just let AI make your video without proofreading text.
The mere fact they loved your comment just shows how much trash this is
I have NEVER seen so many, and such unnecessary, typos.
Huh? Typos? My jight jacket is my favorite one!
@catsinq5726 😂
I gave up 44 seconds in.
Well, i'm not trusting a video entirely made of AI either so
1. Don’t hike alone
2. Don’t step off the trail
3. Carry more than one bottle of water…
Let everyone you meet know where you are going, how you plan on getting there, and wear clothes easily seen. Get a good map (a waterproof physical map you know how to read and have marked your current location and planned route plus landmarks on), carry fire starting tools you know how to use (flint and steel is no good if you have never used it), kindling/tinder, a way to make loud noises - VERY VERY LOUD NOISES - not a whistle which fades quickly over short distances - a flare gun, a cell phone if there is service, consider satellite communications.
LS. YOU ARE A WISE PERSON!!! That what you are telling us , DO IT, and you never come in trouble
Exactly! My first thought was: Why in the world would you be hiking alone!? I know people do, but it's way more dangerous.
@davewade30 If that is your mindset then ask: Why would you go out hiking at all?
If you really feel that those first three rules are unbreakable then you should add rule number four: 4. Don't go hiking
I'm so glad I watched this video to know what's important when making a video... Don't make simple spelling mistakes and lose all credibility... 😂
That's a very powerfuinc observation!
@trumpstertroller8426 😂
It's all AI generated, but why not check it before posting 😵💫
@NextBridgeAS That would defeat the purposxuds
I found myself *conrably* noticing misspellings throughout the video. It was as if he were setting out little *trays* to ensnare us...
@7:19
- “Many survivors have been found dead” … huh 🤔 7:19
Found dead "nexit" to the ashes of a failed fire...
It's ironic that everyone that has ever died were all previous survivors. It's like everyone that has been divorced was married.
AI is not I
@burrbonus😂
"I'm not quite dead yet!"
"Yes, you are."
THUMP!
If you suddenly find yourself lost, mark your current location. Something easily recognized from all directions. You are likely not far from the trail you were following. Pick a direction and walk as far as you can go without losing sight of your starting point. Look around. Return to your starting point. Do the same in seven more directions. If you found something encouraging in one direction, repeat you path in that direction, mark that location, and continue moving in that direction as far as you can still see the second marker. If you haven't found the trail or anything recognizable, return to the original location. Repeat for other directions. If you have a roll of colorful paracord, you may use that to mark your path. Always return to your starting point until you find the trail again.
Well done, I came here to say this. As soon as you realise you are lost systematically explore the 4 compass points from a marked location. Leave markers to the next location you choose. The compass method for not walking randomly.
That is a pretty shocking number of typos. Did anyone actually read the images?
Nope.
First you need to work out if and when, anyone is going to look for you. Are you going to be rescued or do you need to rescue yourself?
And the first thing he should have mentioned is: before you leave, tell somebody you trust: where you are going, when to expect you back, and when to report you missing.
Like the the older woman found deceased long after they had given up searching for her. She was just 100 yards or something like that off the Appalachian trail. She had left a written journal saying she thought it best to wait for someone to find her.
Don't say don't follow a river. Flowing water will almost always lead you to civilization. Follow the river but follow it from the highest point that you can still see the river from. Only go down to the water if you need to fill your water bottle and then get back to the high land. Before you go down to the water while you are still on the high land make sure that you can both get down to the water and back up to the highland. If both of these are not true you are better off to keep pushing forward and wait for a better clearing where you can both get to the water and get back to the highland and then go down to the water and fill your water bottle. It is easier for search and rescue to find you if you are up high. 2nd it is easier to find your way towards civilization if you are up high. Make sure to keep a solid land mark of some kind like a tall mountain peak or a tall tree in front you so you don't keep walking in circles. When you get to the reference point draw an arrow on the ground in the direction you are going and find a new refrence point that is both in front of you based on where you came from and keeps you near the water. Draw an arrow towards the new reference point. Keep repeating this so that if someone is trying to find you they know which way you went.
true. however it is based on the assumption that the lost person is being searched for. some people inform noone about their plans.
And if you have a clear plan where to go and it's bright at night and you have good insulation, walk at night and sleep during the day. Makes you a good target for search & rescue forces AND helps you with heat during the night.
I died from a lack of paragraph breaks.
What about windchill?
@DomDeDom If cold or windchill might be a factor start by dressing in layers and wear clothing that does not trap moisture against your body (do not wear cotton). Start with a thin drifit tshirt, then a thicker drifit tshirt, then a thin long sleeve drifit shirt, then a thin rain coat, then a heavy pea coat or wool coat. For the bottom 1/2 start with drifit underwear and wool socks, then drifit basketball shorts, then drifit running pants, and finally waterproof cargo pants or at least cargo pants that are not made of cotton. Be sure to wear a neck gator and a winter hat made of wool. Wear waterproof hiking boots and thinsulated winter gloves. This way you can remove and add layers as needed and clothing will not trap moisture against your body. Try to make a shelter that is close to an open area where you can signal for help. Gather some logs, branches, and twigs and try making a shelter that you can enclose with leaves and pine needles or any other material you can find that will insulate you from the environment. Be sure to leave a small opening at the top of the shelter for gases to escape so you don't die from carbon monoxide poising or something like that. Try to make the shelter big enough that you can keep a small fire going inside it without the whole shelter lighting on fire around you. If not try to keep a fire going outside very close to the shelter to provide heat. Be you leave home bring some bright orange electrical tape with you so you can signal for help if needed (bright orange is a color that is easily spotted by rescue teams if you are in need of rescue).
Has the person who wrote this got dyslexia?..
I asked myself the same thing (and if this is incorrect, I have to mention that I am German).
Not sure if this has become a "norm", but I've seem a LOT of images on RUclips that I suspect are AI generated that show misspellings.. Apparently, the AI models generate letters as pixel models that don't regard linguistics, semantic, or phonetic units.
It's getting chilly, I think I need to put on a jight jackert!
@erdlichtkanal you're not wrong....quite a few of these sites that use AI have this issue. It's kind of disorienting to hear one thing a read something totally backwards.
@erdlichtkanal there are a lot of misspellings
2:00 "If you keep moving, you are *CONRABLY* expanding the search radius." I don't think it's _ever_ good to "conrably" do anything...
Wildeness Survival Priorities
1) DON'T PANIC!
2) First Aid
3) Shelter
4) Fire
5) Signaling
6) Water
7) Food
0) Get a printed map, study it before you leave and bring a compass
@MrX-nv8kp That's not the point. This is what's important in SPITE of having checked the wx and having a map and compass. There are all kinds of reasons why one might be stranded in the wilderness that aren't related to being lost or bad weather.
@timrogers2638I understand your point, just want to emphasize, that survival starts before you begin the trip, and it should be anyone's priority before leaving.
Reminds me of the time I went too deep into the water that had rip tides. I kept trying to get out but it kept pulling me back in. At a certain point I said to myself, this is it for me. So I let go and stopped trying. A few minutes later I started to feel the sand under my feet and I got out nice and easy.
In a riptide situation, swim parallel to the shore until you are out of the riptide stream
The Canadian army winter survival course teaches you the three most important things to do when lost: shelter, shelter, shelter. 1. Shelter: you want to get out of the wind. 2. Shelter: you want to get out of the rain and snow. 3. Shelter: you want to get off the cold ground.
Hydrate or die.
On 50-mile bike rides we aimed to have half-full bottles at mile 25, but empty bottles by mile 40.
So many people worry about AI taking over all our jobs and I sit back and watch a video like this and realize how unfounded those concerns are. AI isn't even at a point where it can spell simple words correctly, it's certainly not at a point where it's going to take over the world or displace human workers.
People that care about spelling mistakes are complete idiots
@michaeldejong2700 "People that care about spelling mistakes are complete idiots"
Azzackly! Ppl hoo wory abot speling r jus dum! yoo anne i r jus az smrt azz dey r!! were prolly evn smatter den dem!!
There’s literally a book called “Follow the River” about Mary Ingles, who escaped Shawnee captors and traveled from northern Ky back to the Shenandoah Valley by…following the river.
I also saw a movie (can't remember the name now, pretty new) based on thru events about a group in South Amercia getting lost in the jungle, they get split up and one guy ending up all alone, he follows the river and eventually his friend comes back and find him after getting a boat and search for him. That end made me cry after seeing all the things he went thru but his friend never gave up on him even when the police told him to stop searching.
“Jungle,” starring Daniel Radcliffe,.
@brandonletzko2472Thanks.
Great read, their journey was absolutely remarkable!
Awful errors in captions.
There is no search and rescue looking for me if I have no signal to tell them I’m lost. Better keep moving.
Much better to have told someone where you are going and when to expect you to return. Think ahead!
My best survival technique is to find the trail markers. 😊
If you can. Most of the time they are missing. I stayed on the trail until daylight because going down an unmarked trail will kill you. (People love to try and make short cuts, then fail.) Paul Harrell told how he tried to take a short cut and got lost, but found his way just as search and rescue found him.
We got lost in fields and my wife suggested we go back and get a look around from a higher point, we seen some cattle, walked to them... cowherds. They showed us the proper route.
Yep, I listen to my wife.
Good solid information! Thank you.
But horribly spelled
5:03 what the hell is that thing? And why do the gloved hands have fingernails? And what the hell is that liquid? Ketchup?
A I has a lot of imagination, lol
If i sat still and waited for rescue every time I got lost out in the wild, I would have been dead hundreds of times.
I pretty much ALWAYS get lost. that's half of the fun.
I've only ever had search and rescue called on me once - my wife miscalculated my return date. I was sitting in a bar drinking beers while she was filing a missing person report.
That highlights two things -
I had a plan to be enacted if I failed to return by a specific date. That plan included my intended route and the trigger time to call for help. (my wife was out by one day)
I always manage to get un-lost, because i do this a lot. Nothing trumps experience.
The idea that you should never follow a river is wrong. Follow the river if you know where the river goes, if you know what the terrain will be like. DON'T follow the river into a gorge.
Walking a ridge is usually a good idea. It will often have an animal trail to follow, because animals do this for a living.
The best advice is to know where you are going, what the area is like. You won't have walked a hundred miles from your start point by the time you figure out you've got it wrong. So you may just be one ot two valleys over from where you should be. If you have done your research beforehand, you'll be able to figure it out and get back on track.
PRACTICE!
Research a route. Go out and go off route and then try to find your way back. Start out in a constrained location. i.e. an hours walk in any direction will get you to a road. Learn how to figure this stuff out and getting lost won't every be a problem ever again.
Follow animal trails? WTF would you do that? The animals are going to places that suit them, not humans.
@fleatactical7390 you follow animal trails because they do this for a living. No ego, no urban myths, they do what works. Following a river into a gorge is a good way to not pass on your genes. I've had to do that for search and rescue and even we got to the point where we bailed out up to the ridgeline. If you're a whio then fine, follow the river. But if you're a human it's probably better to find a better way.
"PRACTICE!" Easily the best advice anyone can take is to practice. That practice should be in good conditions and in places where you can't get 'lost' lost, certainly initially until you know what you are doing.
Ya, the spelling bugs me too, makes me think the creator doesn't really care about clarity when giving safety information. Taking survival advice from a RUclips video probably means you're not going to make it. Even the people who live through being lost are not safe, @7:18 - "Many survivors have been found dead..."
Be prepared.
The bad decision was going into a forest without a compass.
You can always find directions by using the face of watch.. or imaginary watch as we are all digital.. these days having a stand alone battery to recharge your phone might be more important.
and a printed map...
@jeffsim8664not in heavy rain or fog... bring a compass
BUT...how many people actually know how to use one these days? Also, a good idea to have a map that you know how to use in conjunction with the compass. But then, if you have these are you really lost?
@edhalson3154 I live in the middle of a national forest in the mountains. I know the area well enough to navigate by just compass. No need for a map but I have learned the hard way it's easy to get mixed up and heading the wrong way in a forest without a compass so I never go out without one.
Number one safety rule is to let multiple people know where you are going and when you are expected to return.
Staying put only works if you're pretty sure that someone is going to look for you. In some circumstances you have to fend for yourself. Each situation is different and it requires judgement not blindly following rules.
The NYS Hunter Safety booklet has a section on survival. First thing to do when you realize yer lost is STOP. That stands for Stop, Think, Observe and Plan. Never enter woods or any unfamiliar "wild" areas without a map (topo's are best) and a compass. And learn how to use both first, duh. A cheap whistle weighs little and can save yer ass.
So glad I watched this so I know what's important and what isn't 😮😢❤
Almost all of this presumed that you would be lost in an area where the temperatures drop below freezing. If you are in an area where the night time temps remain warm then you will be wasting time and energy building a shelter. He also contradicts himself when he says "Stay where you are" and later tells you to walk to high ground. Which is it?
Shelter over fire was a new one for me.
the annoying music in the background - what purpose does it serve?
torture
It was meant to be annoying...it succeeded 100%
Waht a Greta vidio. This was spruer hlepfulll and informatinative.
Great tips buddy. You did a good job explaining
Yeah, drink your water and pee it immediately 😂
I'm pretty sure this is AI. AI searches the web to find information you want, in this case about survival mistakes. It has no idea how good or bad its sources are. Many of its sources may be other AI.
If you are cold and wet, you may have a limited time to produce either shelter or fire. If you know what you are doing, you can produce a fire in about thirty minutes. It can take several hours to build a shelter. Either way, you have to collect materials. You may also find shelter at the base of a tree or rock. It doesn't have to be much, just enough to keep you out of the wind or rain while you build a fire. Once you have a fire, you can collect materials for a shelter.
If there is no way to build a fire - there is no dead wood available or you have no ignition source - your shelter has to be as small as possible, just big enough for you to crawl into. The smaller the space you have to heat, the more effective your body heat will be.
Never go into the forest without at least two ignition sources, some fire starters, and a sturdy knife.
Never go into the forest without a poncho and a roll of paracord.
If you can start a forest fire, rangers and fire fighters will come to you.
If you're good at starting a fire, you can get one going rather quickly. Then you can warm up next to it while you're building your shelter.
If you're not, then go straight for the shelter.
This all assumes that you are lost in an area where the temperatures drop to freezing. If the weather is warm day and night you need neither fire or shelter.
@sidecarmisanthrope5927fire does more than keep you warm.
The advice to stay put and to wait for rescuers applies only if you have reason to think that someone will come looking for you. And even then it may take more than three days before they find you, so you basically need to find a source of water. Oh, and the one time that I did get lost as a kid, it was in rough, semi-mountainous terrain - there were lots of troughs and depressions amongst all the intersecting ridges, but what I needed was a valley that would lead out of all those ridges. I found a creek and followed it, guessing correctly that if it did dead-end in a depression, it should have long since created a bit of a lake. Well, it hadn't created a lake; and it snaked around a couple ridges, after a while opened up onto a low, straight valley and brought me after a few hours to a dirt road which led to a paved road which led to the main road which I recognised.
Verry nice,well done! 💓💖💗
Sehr interessant!
Shelter 3 feet thick.........uhhhh........yea, good luck
Bhai tum video kaise banate ho
thanks for the video
Staying put depends on whether someone is looking for you. It's better to head for a high point and look around.. If you don't have a compass there are various ways to find North; a shadow stick is best if the sun is out. I agree about prioritising shelter over fire.
I carry a whistle. Better to stay near the trail, but not know where it is, and try to attract attention.
Your instincts are ALWAYS right, and you contradict yourself in the first minute of your video by confusing instinct with some stuff people might have seen in movies.
Not even close to being true. People trust themselves all of the time and make ridiculous choices.
@machupikachu1085 You don't seem to understand the difference between instinct and rationally made decisions, but let's just leave it like that.
@erdlichtkanal no. YOU don't think I don't. When existential threats happen, your instincts will tell you to either fight, flight, or freeze. However, you can't do all three at once. Soooo....you're gonna have to....wait for it.....choose one.
So, I do get it. But, you've clearly got it all figured out - why don't you tell everyone here why I don't get it. Go on - enlighten everyone.
Sounds good in theory, but in reality, it would be difficult staying still and waiting for the embarrassment of being rescued, when you know you could only be 10min from the track. Or willingly drinking all the water, when you dont know where you can get more water from.
That's the mistake! Fearing embarrassment and wandering deeper into the woods because the street is just ten minutes away, right?
I was big game hunting in the mountains of Colorado in a large snowstorm. I had changed my hunting location by a hundred miles without telling anyone. I know, a very stupid thing to do. When I realized I was lost, and did just like this video said. I walked faster and faster and tried to get out. I was absolutely panicked. I remember telling myself to STOP which by the grace of God I did. I tried to mentally assess my situation. I mentally went through my small day packs contents. I was underprepared. My pack was not set up for a night out in the wilderness, let alone a snow storm. Stupid me.
However, in the moments of calm I heard a car slide off of the road and try to get unstuck.
I was able to point myself in the direction of the sound. An hour or two later I was on a road not too far from my truck. I have never felt so relieved. I immediately drove back home. I ended up stopping at a car wash to remove the packed ice from my truck to get it to drive since the built up ice was beginning to affect my steering.
Get high but stay below the treeline. The difference in protection is amazing, the material for better shelter and then for fire is there. It is easier to be both safe AND found if you're near the wide open but not exposed. All of this is much easier than if you're down in a ravine.
If you get high though you will make bad decisions...😂
If every spelling error in this was a wrong survival decision the maker would be dead.
On your phone use offline hiking maps. GPS works almost everywhere, even where is no cell signal. And have a powerbank.
Good video! I spend a lot of time on wilderness adventures. I ALWAYS have a GPS with extra batteries with me. I also carry a Satellite Phone on most trips. I have walked off the trail and got confused which way was back to the trail (remember the GPS!) I made it back just fine!.
What the heck with all the weird typos? Edit your video.
The misspellings and errors in this video destroyed MY cognitive function.
Those drawings were great. Probably AI too.
Unfortunately, the odd misspellings lesson the credibility of the video
I am laughing out loud at all the misspelled words I find in just the first 30 seconds.
spellcheck much?? thought so
Rule number one, don't get lost. Stay on the trail and check how long it is before starting so you know how much supplies you need to bring. Bring a compass and a map, GPS can stop working and will run out of batteries. Following a river can be smart if you know where it's leading, and you will have water supply, moving water is always drinkable. Just sit and wait for rescue may work if somebody know that you are out there and starts missing you, if not you may sit there until death without nobody searching for you. Being prepared and think before even leaving your home will save you from getting in trouble and if you are the kind that go lost even in the city, stay out of the wild!
My one disagreement is walking out. It has saved me many times. I'm lost for a while, and eventually I find a familiar landmark and find my way out of there. Staying put made no sense as nobody was looking for me yet, and it was just a way for me to run out of water and succumb to the heat.
It's funny how I always had the exact same feeling when watching various "survival" shows where guys were making complicated animal traps, walking around aimlessly... when in reality, rescuers search according to "where this lost guy was last seen", and most of these weird survival-commando techniques will only tire you out without much effect.
most likely because those survival shows are not about being lost and waiting for the rescue team but rather about living in wilderness and being able to provide various necessities for ones survival themselves. Many people do this as a hobby but this requires experience.
@Magda-p1v There are, of course, shows about the lives of people somewhere in Alaska or northern Sweden, etc., but there are also shows where the plot is supposedly that a guy gets lost/his plane crashes and starts doing some strange "operations" that of course miraculously "work", when in reality... as said in this program... he would just get tired without any effect. As a child from the countryside, I made various shelters out of branches, fires, and even traps - mostly for my friends as part of a pretend "war", but I knew that all these activities were not what I should do if I got lost in a strange place and my parents were looking for me. ;)
I love the drawing at 6m4s .. what does it mean?? That the last thing that you do before you die, is make an abstract sculpture?
I'm so glad you posted this comment. I saw that picture and was kind of confused, but then it was gone and I went back to pondering the information I was receiving and all the spelling errors. After reading your post l thought, "What sculpture? " and returned to 6:04. What the hell is that? What does it mean?? I'm thinking, meditate in an igloo for a while, then after laying down with a burning sleeping bag on your leg you return to the igloo with a pitchfork. You now have two options: you can end your little adventure by climbing into another sleeping bag with a giant marshmallow, or you can continue on to the building of your sculpture after a brief interlude of setting one side of your face on fire. Did I get it?
@zazo4398 Umm.. I guess so 🙂
I can't help but get frustrated when I see a drawing, and I assume it's made by a human with a purpose of communication ("1 picture says more than 1000 words"), and then it turns out to be AI slop. And then I get a bit annoyed that I was tricked so easily 🙂.
The content begins at 1:28, following a lengthy and unnecessary preamble.
Good subject, but fix the spelling!
Contradiction, you advised sitting still then advised moving to a high point. Sitting still only works if someone knows where to look, always let someone know your itinerary. Following a stream can work if you are fairly familiar with the terrain. Common sense is the best tool and it is situational...know before you go.
If lost, always go downhill
Carry a powerfull laser pointer.
Awesome advice. I would add, stay dry, either from rain or own sweat, hypothermia kicks in way faster when wet, water is an excellent heat conductor
Great tip!
Tip number one… don’t get lost.
Damn dude learn how to spell. A sixth grader knows how to spell better than you.
It may sometimes be in your best interest to keep walking when you get lost while hiking. For example, if you get lost on a mountain hike and nobody knows, or a your gps mini batttery died, then it may be a different story. You could possibly be lost at a very high altitude and need to descend to minimize exposure, not knowing how long that you could've had to brave more harsh elements waiting higher up on the slope.
Before you go hiking and get yourself lost spend $100 on a basic GPS that uses AA batteries and carry spare batteries. Cellphones also have GPS with navigation apps but should be used sparingly, the simple GPS will last for days compared to a cellphone.
Thanks for the practical advice. Too bad there are so many mistakes that I spent most of my time trying to spot what rubbish the AI will write next.
Unfortunately the video is impausibell to wattch beclawse ov ull thu random speleeng kaos.
Eye reely lykd this amazzimy vidio speshially its atebtshin two deetails, hellfull tipz and amazon edtitings
Перед тим, як іти в похід, завжди в першу чергу варто ознайомитися з особливостями місцевості.
Most of this is fine assuming someone is searching for you. What if it is not the case?
Regarding following water/river.
Well, you better know the local map that has rivers on it.
Once read a...blueprint map. It got a river which lead to coastline with a settlement East of the estuary.
So, on that particular area, following the water downstream could lead to a settlement.
One night on Army training we walked for 4 hours and yep, this is true, we came back to the spot we started from, after 4 hours of walking with our equipment on our backs. I could not believe it. Then we were told we still had our "problem and mission" to complete, but have half of the time since we had used 4 hours walking in a circle. Ugh.
I am an outdoor adventurer and do plenty of research of the area that I am going to explore ahead of time. I always prepare for the worst, never assume that everything will go smooth all of the time. Definitely, take plenty of water, make sure that you are prepared for the weather conditions and i like to bring plenty of beef jerky to eat while hiking. Beef jerky is very light and has plenty of protein. Following a river is not a bad idea because it often leads to civilization or other people. I hike in forest and jungles often and if you get lost in the wilderness you are actually not going to get seen by a helicopter of plane because of the dense canopy. I also mark my path, so I can retrace my steps if needed.
I'm pretty sure no one would come for me, so I will have to use the strategies this video says not to use.
So are we making a wrong decisiom because of an instinct or because of what we saw in a HW movie? Which is it?
There's an assumption that someone will call search and rescue for you. No one is going to do that for me because I didn't tell anyone that I'm going on a hike.
👍👏👏👏👏👏
As soon as you have a topogragraphical map, nothing really is a problem any more.
Abysmal text. Did you even bother to read it before you posted?
Why did you misspell words? I think that hurts your credibility. It looks like you don't really care about what you are doing. Why should anyone trust what you are saying when you are not paying attention to details?
I use to work at a Insurance and this ex teacher always correct my grammar, annoying ASF
WHY DOES IT MATTER, it's telling you how to survive ... that's why people die, they focus on the stupidest things 😢😮❤
@MsPangY I suppose
I am a mathematician
And maybe that's why I can catch my misspellings or similar errors
Here's the point - if you read what you've written before posting, it's much more probable that you'll catch the error
I never post anything without reading it at least once
@Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixesit is AI..duh
Its AI trying to act human
@p1radsterit's not even focused on the video but focuses on the spelling! I wouldn't be surprised if someone forgot things and worried bout spelling!! I hope danger makes you focus on spelling 😂
Following a river can be a good decision, depends on where you are. Usualy you know if you are in a flat or hilly area... Usualy you know the rivers and the cities around.
So stay calm, drink and think before make a decision.
Every situation is different. What is right in one can be deadly in another one.
I beat the odds when I got lost in a New York State forest February 1999. I followed my instincts and found the road back to my car...just before dark.
I lived in the Adirondacks for 30 years, and a contributing factor to many rescue situations was city people who underestimated how wild and vast the ADK park is. Those 6 million acres can swallow a person up. Good for you, staying calm and finding your way out. Some people weren't so lucky.
Who so many spelling mistakes?? THUMBS DOWN
Why are there so many spelling errors in this video?
The military teaches a bit different than this video lol. You have you to depend on not a rescue team that may never come. Buy an Army survival guide, they are out there, and follow it.
If you are unprepared and in bad shape, no internet video will help you make the right choice. Prepare for becoming lost. Who goes to hiking only with a jacket and half liter of water. and one match... how many people have experience starting and maintaining fire, building shelters and hunting. Not those with jacket and a bottle of water.
The 2 keys to survival are to stay dry and out of the wind. I always carry a tarp, even if I only plan to be out for the day. In an emergency situations, a tarp can be set up in minutes, while a “bushcraft” shelter takes hours. This difference in time could well be the difference between surviving and dying.
Maybe get to the point(s)?
And of course, always carry a satellite tracker
I remember I was at a course for work and we did a group exercise in team building where we pretended to be a group of lost hikers in the wilderness and we had to come up with a survival plan. As I had already had real experience in bush survival; I thought I would just sit there and listen to what everyone else had to say. I was shocked; I just could not believe the ridiculous things that they all came out with. They basically had no idea and suggested all the wrong things, as described in the video. These people were representative of a broad section the community and that's the thing that really worried me. Are people really that ignorant now?
Great video btw 👍😃
Water is easier to carry in your belly than on your back. Drink it instead of haul it.
A small shelter takes time to build from materials you may have to drag back to your site.
Give yourself enough time to accomplish the task.
A small fire with a reflector provides more heat than a huge bon fire and is easier to maintain.
While things can go wrong, learning to read a topographic map and navigate with a compass is not all that hard.having a small fire starting kit in your pocket should be standard for anyone going off the paved road, or even for taking a road trip out of town.
Video starts with “Imagine you’re hiking alone…” no, not a chance so Im good.
Looong life Arfiticiel Intellegience!!😅
The only instinct I got wrong was the one that told me to watch this video.
Actually what you need to do is learn how to maintain situational awareness. Know where you are, what is around you and how to find your way out if you do get confused about exactly where you are. There are always boundaries to where you are hiking. Those boundaries can be a road, a river, a ridge etc. Know where the boundaries are and if you haven't crossed one then you at least know that you are still within those boundaries. Carry a map, compass, watch and perhaps a GPS. Many hikers now have an ap on their phone which will tell them exactly where they are even if there is no cell signal.
"humans have a natural tendency to walk in circles" "nature doesnt care about your feelings." - i didnt expect a philosophical take on this but am in for it...