The purpose of a survival kit is to speed up the process of and increase you chances of:

A: Survival

B: Being found or Finding help

Part A: of the survival kit has 4 distinct goals to help provide you with:

SHELTER: Click here to learn more about finding or creating shelter.

WATER: Click here to learn more about finding water and purifying it.

FIRE: Click here to learn more about fire starting methods.

FOOD: Click here to learn more about finding food in a survival situation.

SHELTER: It is widely accepted that when in a survival situation for first priority is shelter, weather can have crippling effects on your morale as well as your chances of survival. Having a shelter out of the elements will boost your morale and let you conserve valuable body heat. It is important not to expend too much energy building a shelter as this can lead to dehydration if you do not have an easily accessible water source.

WATER: Once you have shelter then you need to think about water with the exception of Sea and Desert survival then there is usually a way of finding water, they are discussed at greater length: Click Here

FIRE: With fire the expression “there are many ways to skin a cat” springs to mind there are more than 20 primitive fire starting methods that can be used for starting a fire the majority based on friction, more modern methods range from using a can of coke and a chocolate bar, Yes it can be done, to using disinfectant chemicals that can be found in a first aid kit and soap that that when mixed spontaneously burst into flames. Click Here: for a definitive list on fire starting methods.

FOOD: When we talk about food in a survival situation we are usually only referring to medium and long term survival situations. For most of us the thought of not eating for 3 hours causes us to break into a cold sweat, but there are recorded cases of people surviving 40 days and longer with no food like James Scott a 22 year old climber, who in December 1991 after becoming lost in the Himalayas spent 42 days under a rocky overhang and with the exception of a single caterpillar survived 42 days with no food. He was rescued after a rescue helicopter spotted him.

To read more real life survival stories: Click Here

With Every item you place in your survival kit you must think carefully about its purpose and ask the question is it going to help me survive or help me in being found.

Items in Part A: Survival

Fire Steel: (Click Here to Learn More)

Knife: (Click Here to Learn More) Or razor blade for (building shelter, hunting tools, cutting meat)

Water Purification tablets: (Click Here to Learn More) Chlorine, Aqua-Mira, Iodine

Snares: (Click Here to Learn More) (catching rabbits or squirrels)

Fishing kit: (Click Here to Learn More)

Sewing kit: (Click Here to Learn More)

Wire Saw: (Click Here to Learn More)

Duct Tape: (Click Here to Learn More)

Tampon: (Click Here to Learn More)

Condom: (Click Here to Learn More)

Items in Part B: Being found or Finding help

Whistle: (Click Here to Learn More) (whistle- pause- whistle- pause- whistle code for s.o.s)

Compass: (Click Here to Learn More)

Head-torch: (Click Here to Learn More)

Signal Mirror: (Click Here to Learn More)

Fire Steel: (Click Here to Learn More) Items that produce fire fall into both categories as they can be used to produce a signal fire and the fire can be used for heat.

The items listed here are only generic items for survival situations you might encounter in the Sub arctic forests or north America or Europe, if you are going to be venturing into more remote environments please look at the relevant pages below for items that will be essential in those environments:

Desert                Mountain             Arctic                Jungle               Sea