[Read this book and you’re guaranteed to learn something]
I joined a wilderness survival reality show just to win the prize money and go home to build a villa.
While everyone else struggled to get enough to eat, I’d already built a windbreak with tarpaulin, planned out a spring-water cellar, and set traps.
While the other contestants were still arguing over which wild berries were safe, the first beam of my mountain cabin was already in place.
The audience laughed at me as a “one-man infrastructure machine.” Then the blizzard hit. They huddled and shivered, while I sat by the fireplace taking stock of my winter provisions.
The production crew was stunned to discover that this young man, who said he was going home to build a house, was using the most primitive skills to recreate a sturdy home in a temperate forest.
“Survival skills? It’s nothing like that. I’m just a kid from the mountains. The know-how to make a living has been part of me for as long as I can remember.”
