John Baker - Audiobook; Preparation & Survival
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Preparation begins with knowing and accepting what lies ahead. Genuine wilderness exploration is as dangerous as warfare wrote Theodore Roosevelt after nearly dying on an Amazon River tributary. In 1914, the conquest of Wild Nature demands the utmost of vigor hardwood and daring and takes from the conquerors. A heavy toll of life and health with all respect to T R. Vigor, hardwood and daring are not enough. Surviving far from civilization is more than conquering nature. Experts in survival techniques say that people who try to be heroes quickly die, they have stamina but they lack the proper attitude. Nature is a powerful adversary and survivors humble themselves before it. Those who forget that lesson do so. At great price, John Cracker noted in his book about climbing Mount Everest that a professional guide exhibited overconfidence. We've got the biggie figured out. The guide said these days, I'm telling you, we've built a yellow brick road to summit that guide died on the high slopes. Similarly, the protagonist in to build a fire, Jack London's story about a man walking in the Yukon when the air registered negative 75 degrees had the right equipment. Deep knowledge of his environment and a crippling supply of hubris. He died because he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things and not in the significance.