Outside Magazine, May 2012
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5 Essential Survival Tips

Surprising advice that can save your life

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Treating a sprained ankle, via Shutterstock Photo: Warren Goldswain

If you're headed into the backcountry, you need to know basic wilderness medicine skills—and be able to separate fact from first-aid fiction. We've got your back. Here's how to survive snakebites, drowning, and two other common injuries. Plus: how to build your own first-aid kit.

As Mark Jenkins knows, wilderness first aid can hurt. (Just ask his patients.) So he finally did what everyone should do: he took a class from real experts.

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