Top 10 Survival Skills You Need to Know

Life Saving Essential Survival Skills

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Survival skills are techniques that a person may use in order to sustain life in any type of natural environment. These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human life which include water, food, and shelter. The skills also support proper knowledge and interactions with animals and plants to promote the sustaining of life over a period of time. Survival skills are often basic ideas and abilities that ancients invented and used themselves for thousands of years.[1] Outdoor activities such as hiking, backpacking, horseback riding, fishing, and hunting all require basic wilderness survival skills, especially in handling emergency situations. Bushcraft and primitive living are most often self-implemented, but require many of the same skills.

Top 10 Survival Skills You Need to Know

Do you have survival skills that could save your life? In a worst case scenario, anyone could benefit from possessing certain must-have survival skills like how to build a signal fire, how to perform DIY first aid and how to find food and water. We look at the top 10 wilderness survival skills you should learn now to give you an idea of how to survive in the wild.

  • How to Find Food
  • How to Purify Water
  • How to Make a Shelter
  • How to Make a Fire
  • How to Attract Attention with a Signal Fire
  • How to Keep Up Your Dental Hygiene
  • How to Tie a Bowline
  • How to Find Your Way by Day or by Night (Without a Compass)
  • How to Perform DIY First Aid
  • How to Make a Spear to Catch Animals / Food

If you want to see some of these skills in action, be sure to watch our videos of the Top 10 Amazing Survival