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Phoenix'A mythical bird that never dies, the phoenix flies far ahead to the front, always scanning the landscape and distant space. It represents our capacity for vision, for collecting sensory information about our environment and the events unfolding within it. The phoenix, with its great beauty, creates intense excitement and deathless inspiration.' - The Feng Shui Handbook, feng shui Master Lam Kam Chuen
Tragically, the growth in outdoor industrial pursuits has led to a steady increase in the number of accidents and deaths resulting from unpreparedness or lack of knowledge. All too often we have come upon the results of such mishaps. A forestry worker becomes hopelessly lost and wastes his energy in a flight of panic. A maintenance worker sprains an ankle and dies of hypothermia during a night without shelter. A downed pilot nearly starves to death in the midst of a bounty of edible plants and animals. An inspector runs off the road during a blizzard and freezes to death in his vehicle. The list is endless. Most of these mishaps are needless and avoidable. They could be prevented with the most basic understanding of wilderness survival. Yet many people die and thousands more travel the backwoods in peril because they have never been properly taught the skills that can give them a fighting chance at survival. Survival is 90% common sense and that is the way it should be taught. |
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| Basic survival skills are not only concerned with the extremes of an air plane crash on a remote mountain peak, a shipwreck in the ocean or a vehicle breakdown in the middle of the arctic. Every time you fasten a seat belt in a car you are giving yourself a greater chance of survival. Checking each way before crossing a road or ensuring that an open fire is safe before you go to bed are survival techniques that must be learned. These habits of mind must be developed as much as acquiring skills. |
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