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Jonas Žvilius

“Rubbing Frostbitten Skin”: 65 Survival Myths That Are Nothing But A Bunch Of Harmful Nonsense

Summer will be here before we know it, and with it comes the season of camping trips, long hikes, and road adventures. It also brings that quiet confidence many of us have that if things ever went wrong in the wild, we’d somehow manage.

Like we’d turn into the main character of a survival movie — building fires, finding water, playing lifeless in front of a bear, and walking out of the forest like nothing happened.

While it’s easy to believe we’ve picked up a few life-saving tricks from the TV, a lot of them are actually pretty misleading.

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