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For sites providing stories or anecdotes on survival experiences, including reports on wilderness trips.

Links:

One Week in the Wilderness Provides a journal and video footage of one man's week long ordeal. Presented by Discovery Channel Canada. www.exn.ca/oneweek

Eight Days in the Jungle Without Water and Food Anton Tomazic's bad experience of climbing Mt. Nevis. tomazic.info/nevis2001e.htm

Wilderness Survival Training Bill Hay tells about his wilderness trips, including descriptions of equipment and survival techniques. Includes photos. bill-hay.com/survival.htm

Woodsdrummer Learn about survival techniques and primitive skills from Eric Stoskopf's journal of his wilderness adventures. Includes equipment checklists. www.woodsdrummer.com

Bill Qualls' Wilderness Survival Page Bill describes his backpacking trips, his experience at Ron Hood's wilderness survival course, and his hikes in Southern California and Colorado. Includes information about survival techniques along with photos. www.caliberdt.com/~bill/survival.htm

Camping Knives A personal story of fixed-blade knife use in a survival situation. Also compares fixed-blade and folding knives. www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/materialism/knives.html