Born to Survive

Born to Survive
The Best Wilderness Survival Techniques

Brutal deserts, impenetrable jungles, treacherous ice, and fierce predators – Bear Grylls shows us how to survive on the edge.

Disasters can happen, and they often do. None of us is immune to sudden twists of fate. “Born to Survive” is a practical survival guide that will help you cope even in the worst-case scenario.

From the pages of this book, you will learn how to build a secure shelter from improvised materials, how to light a fire without matches, how to move through and navigate all kinds of terrain, and a whole host of other proven wilderness survival techniques. Survival expert Bear Grylls shows us that, armed with the right knowledge and the unbreakable will to save ourselves, we all have the potential to face unimaginable challenges – from crossing deadly rivers and killing venomous snakes to encountering a grizzly bear and escaping an avalanche.

No matter whether you find yourself on inaccessible mountain slopes, in the middle of a dense jungle, the icy wilderness, or the raging ocean, with Bear’s advice you will be able to face the wild... and survive. This book may not only save your life one day, it is also a guide to the secrets of the wilderness, reminding us that we are all born to survive.

"Only when I return to the wilderness do I feel alive. I begin to feel that rhythm within me, my senses tune themselves to the world around me; I begin to see in the dark, recognize the scents of the forest, tell an easterly wind from a westerly one. I become human again, I become what nature created me to be. The “wild” helps me free myself from all the imaginary chains with which society has bound me, from all the aggression I see in the streets, from the indifference of people left without hope and dreams.

Nature manages to bring my true self to the surface. When I need space, time to myself, when I suffer and I am in pain, where do I seek comfort? I seek it in the mountains. I find silence and peace there. I feel at home there.