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Wilderness Survival

We Tracked Down a Killer Grizzly — and It Almost Ended in Tragedy

By Gordon D. Gosling

A rock with the word "HELP" scrawled on it.

Wilderness Survival

Missing Man Found in Canadian Wilderness After Scrawling ‘HELP’ on Makeshift Rock Shelter

A Utah hunting guide in the mountains; the guide's pointer.

Wilderness Survival

After Rolling His UTV, This Man Crawled 11 Hours Through the Mountains with Only His Dog to Guide Him

By Kris Millgate

An illustration of a man lost in the woods running in front of a mirage station wagon

Wilderness Survival

My Buddy and I Got Lost on a Caribou Hunt. I Survived, But He Didn’t

By Guy Beauregard

An illustration of a man in the snow

Wilderness Survival

If This Search and Rescue Team Can’t Find You, No One Can

An illustration of a paddler standing face to face with a grizzly bear

Wilderness Survival

I Faced Off with a Grizzly Alone, and in the Middle of Nowhere

By Alann B. Steen

An illustration of a boy hunting cranes

Wilderness Survival

I Was the Youngest Duck Poacher in Saskatchewan

A blue illustration of two men caught in a strainer when their canoe rammed into a beaver dam.

Wilderness Survival

My Brother and I Are Expert Paddlers. We Nearly Drowned Anyway

By Thomas E. Appel

A hunter packs out a buck; a busted ankle injured during the hunt.

Wilderness Survival

I Fell in a Hole While Packing Out My Buck in a Storm. This Old SOS Trick Saved Me

An illustration of a bull moose charging a hunter on a horse.

Wilderness Survival

A Dozen Times I Should Have Died While Hunting and Fishing

By Charles Elliott

an elk hunter was life flighted after cutting himself with a knife

Wilderness Survival

This Happened to Me: I Severed My Artery While Quartering an Elk and Almost Bled Out on the Mountain

Henry Rauschenbach, as told to Alice Jones Webb

An illustration of two hunters climbing through fallen deadfall

Wilderness Survival

I Was Lost for 6 Days with No Food or Fire in the Idaho Backcountry

By Warren Garde

A bush plane on snow; a wrecked plane in a frozen lake.

Wilderness Survival

Alaska Bush Pilot Community Rallies to Find, Rescue Family Whose Plane Crash-Landed on Frozen Lake

A woman in a blue and black illustration rides a horse, the outdoor life girl

Wilderness Survival

The Story of a $10 Bet, and the 1,000 Mile Horseback Ride That Changed My Life

A kayak angler's perspective of rescuing dogs from an icy river.

Wilderness Survival

Watch a Kayak Fisherman Save Two Dogs from Drowning in an Icy River

A polar bear stalks a man

Wilderness Survival

I Canoed the Northwest Passage Solo. The Arctic Nearly Killed Me — Twice

By Tony Dauksza

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Wilderness Survival

Podcast: I Nearly Died on a Duck Hunt

By Alex Robinson

A sled dog team falls through thin ice in an illustration

Wilderness Survival

I Didn’t Trust My Sled Dog. My Poor Judgement Nearly Killed Us All

By Angus Franklin MacIver

An illustration of a man helping rescue an ice fisherman in a boat.

Wilderness Survival

My Fishing Buddies and I Got Trapped on an Ice Floe. One of Us Didn’t Make It

By Robert E. Houle

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Wilderness Survival

A Beginner’s Guide to Bushcraft

By Cameron Evans

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Wilderness Survival

How Long Can You Survive Without Food?

By Christine Peterson

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Wilderness Survival

Outdoor Life Launches New Audio Book: The Wildest Survival Stories of All Time

By Alex Robinson

A couple in brown parkas stand in Point Lay, Alaska.

Wilderness Survival

My Wife and I Tried to Walk Home in an Arctic Storm. We Almost Died

By Scott Haugen

Two photos of duck hunters after successful mallard hunts.

Wilderness Survival

Stranded Hunters Survive Freezing Night on the Water by Building a Fire with Duck Decoys in Their Cooler

A drawing of a fire at a man's feet.

Wilderness Survival

How a Chance Encounter with Another Hunter Saved My Life

SAR personnel traverse a snowy field in the Gifford Pinchot NF

Wilderness Survival

Two Men Found Dead of Exposure in Washington’s Cascade Range Were Hunting For Sasquatch, Officials Say

By Laura Lancaster

A duck hunter shakes his fist at a sky full of ducks.

Wilderness Survival

It Should’ve Been the Best Mallard Hunt of Our Lives. Instead, We Almost Died

By James D. Nunnally

Wilderness Survival

I Nearly Froze to Death When Our Argo Sank in the Middle of an Arctic River

By Scott Haugen

An illustration of a man falling out of a massive wave in a boat in a storm.

Wilderness Survival

‘It’s a Miracle You’re Alive.’ I Nearly Drowned Alongside the Coast Guard in a Freak Storm

By Orval C. Johnson

A black and blue and white illustration of a hunter getting caught in floodwaters with a plane in the background.

Wilderness Survival

Come Wolves and High Water: When a Fly-In Moose Hunt Turns into a Fight for Survival

By Jerry Valentine, as told to Ben East

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Wilderness Survival

The Bush Plane Engine Died Mid-Flight — and Other Close Calls While Flying the Alaskan Wilderness

By Scott Haugen

An illustration of a pair of bull moose fighting in the snow.

Wilderness Survival

A Bull-Moose Brawl and Meat-Packing Sled Dogs: A Mountain Man’s Last Hunt Before Winter

A pair of Dall sheep illustrated.

Wilderness Survival

Carmichel in Alaska: An Odd Way to Die on a Sheep Hunt

By Jim Carmichel

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Wilderness Survival

Nightmare on Missinaibi Lake, a Survival Story From the Archives

By Don M. Campbell, as told to Jim Hoagland

An owner and his dog; the owner being rescued.

Wilderness Survival

This Good Dog Ran 4 Miles for Help After Owner Rolled Truck into Ravine

What Really Happened to Crist Kolby, the Trapper Who Was Killed by Wolves?

Wilderness Survival

What Really Happened to Crist Kolby, the Trapper Who Was Killed by Wolves?

two canoeists pull canoe along in river from the rocky bank

Wilderness Survival

Six Against the River: Canoeing 600 Miles Through the Canadian Wilderness

A texas fisherman in a cypress tree.

Wilderness Survival

Texas Fisherman Rescued from Cypress Tree After a Gator Chased Him Up There

Anglers evacuate a float plane that crashed near the Chandeleur Islands.

Wilderness Survival

Charter Captain Rescues Floatplane Pilot and 3 Anglers Who Literally Crashed His Fishing Spot

The Rogue River Trail in southwestern Oregon.

Wilderness Survival

16 Stranded Hikers Rescued in Oregon After Blisters Prevented Them from Hiking Out

An ice fisherman watches the ice break off in the January 1951 Outdoor Life story, Frozen Terror.

Wilderness Survival

Frozen Terror, One of the Greatest Survival Stories of All Time

A search and rescue training operation

Wilderness Survival

Hikers and Backpackers in the American West Hit Their Garmin InReach SOS Button Most Often

Magazine spread

Wilderness Survival

An Ontario Moose Hunt Turns Into a 10-Day Survival Ordeal, From the Archives

By Elwyn "Bud" Myers

A survival instructor sips rainwater out of a rock. Photo by Benjamin Rasmussen

Wilderness Survival

This Survival Instructor’s Lesson? The Wilderness Isn’t Out to Get You

Story by Andrew McKean, Photographs by Benjamin Rasmussen

An illustration of the last grizzly bear in Colorado attacking a hunter.

Wilderness Survival

I Killed the Last Grizzly in Colorado

Illustration of caribou, hunter, and blizzard

Wilderness Survival

Miracle on the Tundra: How One Caribou Hunter Survived a 5-Day Blizzard

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Wilderness Survival

The 6 Best Survival Movies, Plus 2 We Hate

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Wilderness Survival

Dehydrating Food: How to Make Your Own Backpacking Meals

We tested and reviewed the top five ferro rods to help get you started.

Wilderness Survival

The Best Ferro Rods, Tested and Reviewed

By Tim MacWelch

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Wilderness Survival

The Best Chigger Bite Treatment

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Wilderness Survival

Tick Bite Symptoms

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Wilderness Survival

Watch a ‘Disaster at Sea’ Unfold as a Fishing Boat Sinks Off the Coast of Mexico

A close-up of a deer tick.

Wilderness Survival

How to Identify Common Types of Ticks

By Katie Hill, Tim MacWelch

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Wilderness Survival

Famous Alaska Bush Pilot and Hunting Guide Die in Plane Crash

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Wilderness Survival

How to Prevent Altitude Sickness

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Wilderness Survival

Hunter Impales Charging Brown Bear with an Ice Axe

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Wilderness Survival

Here’s What It Takes to Kayak 2,400 Miles from California to Hawaii, Alone and Unsupported

By Laura Lancaster

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Wilderness Survival

Attacked on the Nushagak: When a Moose Hunter Gets Pinned by a Brown Bear, It’s Up to His Hunting Partner to Save His Life

Taku watershed.

Wilderness Survival

The Story of Sheslay Free Mike, an Infamous, Mad, and Murderous Woodsman of the North Country

Ryker Webb was found in Montana.

Wilderness Survival

3-Year-Old Boy Found After Missing for Two Days in Rural Montana

Bristol bay watershed

Wilderness Survival

Klutuk, the Mad Trapper of Bristol Bay

Thick trees in the fog

Wilderness Survival

When a Lost Kid Wanders into Your Hunting Camp

By Nick Fasciano

Granola bar cut up on an Alaska map of Dall sheep country

Wilderness Survival

Stranded in Sheep Country with Bugs, Bears, and No Food

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Wilderness Survival

Missing Person Found After Surviving Nearly Three Months Alone in the Vancouver Island Wilderness