Survival Courses in the UK: Introduction
Survival Courses in the UK: Introduction
Most people who are into adventure sports would probably like to think they have fairly decent outdoor survival skills. After all, the know-how needed for camping, trekking, climbing, mountaineering etc. is fairly similar to the sorts of skills you’d need to survive in the wild. But unless you’ve actually been in a survival situation, how do you really know? Well, taking a survival course is a good start.
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Whether it’s an overview covering basics like survival food, survival first aid and how to build a shelter, or whether it’s something more specific – focussing on winter survival, how to survive in the desert or a sea survival course for example – taking a course will allow you to hone your existing skills and learn new ones.
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Not only that, but survival courses are just fun. And while you hope you’d never have to use the skills you learn in a real-life survival situation, they can prove useful for all sorts of things – even if it’s just learning how to cook game meat better for your next BBQ.
Here (in no particular order) is Mpora’s run-down of the 10 best survival courses in the UK.