Bearded Leonardo DiCaprio starred The Revenant has been much talked about movie in 2015. It’s a great combination of Adventure, Revenge and Western genre. 2015 has been a good year for Western lovers, as it has brought us three successful Western movies: The Hateful Eight, Tom Bonahawk and The Revenant. The two are surely better than Tom Bonahawk which unfortunately ends with a weaker impact.

Storyline: A team of trappers and hunters was surrounded and attacked by Native Indians. They somehow escaped, but they were still being followed by the Indians. Meanwhile lone Hugh Glass in jungle stumbles upon a grizzly bear protecting her cubs. Glass somehow manages to kill the bear with his rifle and a knife, but this event leaves him nearly dead. Henry, the leader, was suggested to kill Glass by John (the antagonist), as they thought stretcher ridden Glass was slowing them down. But on the request of Hawk (Glass’s half-Indian son) he decides not to kill him and asks for volunteers to take care of Glass till he’s dead. The malevolent John, Glass’s son Hawk and another boy stay, while others leave. John, in the absence of the boy, kills Hawk in front of helpless Glass. He convinces the boy that the Indians may have killed Hawk and they must leave the place.

The long survival adventure, which is the foreground of the film, begins for Glass. After many days, he was found by a team of searchers. Glass tells them the true story of John. John’s already fled to the wilderness fearing for his life. Glass finds him out and takes his ‘revenge’. The film ends with the quote: Revenge is in god’s hands not mine.

Positives: This film is a perfect plate for survival-adventure lovers. The film successfully portrays the long survival efforts made by Glass, which could’ve been boring. The film quenches audience’s thirst for ‘revenge’. Leo’s fight with grizzly bear was shot skillfully. The haunting wilderness and harness make audience shiver. The film’s portrayal of wilderness was praiseworthy. The filmmakers have tried to give a poetic and philosophical touch to the movie which makes us think about life, survival and death. There were many Indian proverbs and philosophy being shown time to time. The film also makes us ponder our racial prejudices, and makes us ponder who was more savage, Whites or the ‘savages’. Tom Hardy’s performance outshines others. It is good to see that old Western dramas and period movies are doing well even today.

Negatives: The film could be a little lengthy. The events in the film couldn’t be verified, so it may not be a ‘based on true story’ film. Leo’s survival adventure story was not completely different from other survival stories. But the blend of the revenge and the history drama did the trick. Though the movie is about the protagonist Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy comes out as a better artist.

Verdict: It’s a MUST WATCH for Western movie buffs.

The uses of a good walking stick are MANY. I always head out into the woods with mine without fail. If you don’t already have one guess what? Get out in the woods and find one! I especially like the “vine wrapped” ones, and with just a little bit of looking around they are easy to find. A lot of folks put a nice finish on them as well, making them a real item to be proud of.

Whether it is a stick you have upgraded, or just a good straight stick you found while in the woods, their uses are unlimited. Walking around the hills and mountains around here they are priceless. If you were to sprang your ankle, that walking stick can get you back home before night falls. If you need to measure the depth of your creek crossing, your stick is a tape measure. If you get stuck in mud or quick sand, your stick can save your life as you can use it for leverage to wiggle yourself out.

If you come across an animal such as an aggressive dog, coyote, etc. you can use your walking stick as protection. If you are forced to stay the night in the woods and can’t get back to camp before daylight you can take your knife, attach it to the end of your walking stick, and there you have a serious weapon for any late night stalkers such as bigger animals that might be lurking around your campfire.

If you are walking or hiking through heavy growth and vegetation, you can use your stick to lift limbs and thorns up out of your way. This will let you pass under the brushy areas without getting injured or scratched up on your hike. Anytime you scratch yourself up while in the wilderness, you leave yourself open to getting infections, which is the last thing you want when you are camping, hiking, or trying to survive in a situation where you are stranded and awaiting rescue.

My wife and I carry a walking stick in each vehicle also! We are not “old folks” yet, but find them very useful to have behind the seats of our cars and trucks. Should you injure yourself away from home, your walking stick is there for you inside that car! My wife had an incident where she pulled something in her back while on her job. That walking stick got her home and in the house!

Often it is the simple things that help us survive. It is not always that hundred dollar knife, the expensive hiking pack, or other store bought gear. Sometimes it is the simple everyday thing you take for granted or hardly ever think of! Any time I am camping, hiking, or just exploring around in the woods I carry my trusty walking stick!

Imagine yourself getting caught in an unfortunate and unexpected survival situation. Now, think about what kind of survival knives you want to be on your side in this situation. Maybe you would be happy enough to have any knife with you. But since we have learned how being prepared has always been better, of course you would want to have the best one possible.

Here, we have laid out the best survival knives and a short description of each one that will help you decide the best one for you.

Best Survival Knives Available

• Gerber BearGrylls Ultimate Knife, Serrated Edge

Gerber’s 70 years of expertise brought about a collaboration with Bear Grylls which resulted in the development of the 4.75-inch Gerber Bear Grylls Ultimate Knife that can help you withstand even the toughest environments. Some of the best features are its ergonomic grip which makes it comfortable to hold.

The dependable stainless steel blade is composed of a versatile serrated edge. The half-serrated blade is designed for a quick work of cutting rope and other fibrous materials. It has a full-tang construction and hard stainless steel in order to serve overall durability and excellent edge retention. This is highly recommended to every adventurers, backpackers and hunters in the wilderness.

• Ka-Bar Becker BK2 Companion Fixed Blade Knife

KA-BAR Knives, Inc. has been known for their high quality military, hunting, sporting as well as outdoor survival knives and any all-purpose utility. You can bring this with you for your next hunting or camping trip as it is lightweight, durable. It is made of 1095 cro-van steel blade that is suitable for outdoor activities such as splitting kindling, skinning game or even chopping spices and herbs for your campfire grill.

• Gerber 22-01629 LMF II Black Infantry Knife with 4.8-Inch Blade

Decades of innovation has made Gerber unstoppable when it comes to survival knives. They have engineered the 10-inch Gerber 22-01629 LMF II Black Infantry Knife with 4.8-Inch Blade to help you survived any conditions even the worst ones. You can use it for cutting firewood, building a survival shelter or even cutting through your seat belt since this knife has been designed to adapt a wide variety of situations.

• Cold Steel SRK Kraton Handle, Black Blade (Concealer Sheath)

This one has 3/16 inches thickness made of AUS 8A Stainless steel which is fine enough for any of your delicate work, yet efficiently capable of cutting, slashing and skinning strokes at the same time. It provides the sturdiest potential point and edge configuration, without sacrificing sharpness.

Survival knives are not only a tool for every outdoor enthusiast who have happily adapt to an extreme lifestyle in the wild. However, it is a tool that everyone should keep and carefully consider since it has proven to be very useful in a range of situations. Moreover, we will never know what Mother Nature might bring and how it can get so much rougher on us.

So, you have broken up with your ex girlfriend, and now you want to call her and don't want to mess it and turn it into a begging session. Yes, you may call her, but you have to understand the psychology of breakup first. Remember that breakup is not easy for some people. Your ex girlfriend might not be willing to remember about it, let alone talking to you. So, when you call her, you have to make it as if the calling has nothing to do with the breakup. In this way, you can make her want to call you back or at least consider talking to you. Here are 5 tips to call her without being needy:

1. Don't plead, don't beg

When you grab that telephone and before you enter her number, you have to remember that you are not calling her to beg for her to get back with you again. You are also not pleading with her to go out with you again, or even to forgive you. You are going to maintain a steady voice.

2. Don't act as if you are on the state of emergency

Don't tell her that it is an emergency call and she needs to call you back immediately. It's an old trick, and it doesn't work well for her in any way. There's no emergency that you need to push to her. You call her simply because you want to call and hear her voice.

3. Ask her to meet in person

If she is answering your call, don't chat with her for too long on the phone. You have to ask her to meet you in person. It is important because it is better for you to talk with her face to face. In this way, you can work your way to attract her interest back to you more effectively. Remember, don't talk too much on the phone.

4. Don't push her to answer your call

If she doesn't answer your call and instead you get her answering machine, just don't push her to answer your call. Leave the choice to her. Just let her know that there is something you want to talk about and you want her to call her back. Keep your calm voice.

5. Raise her self-interest

You have to make her feel interested toward you. So, you have to leave a message that will raise her self-interest. For instance, you can tell her that you appreciate her for the things that she has done to you, but you don't tell her what that thing is. This will make her want to call you back just to confirm about what you're talking on the phone.

There are approximately 25 000 men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer every year in the United Kingdom. For these men the risk of dying from their prostate cancer depends on a number of risk factors. For example if the cancer is confined to the prostate gland at diagnosis the chance of surviving to 5 years is 70%. If the cancer has already spread e.g. to the bones then only 20% of men will survive to five years. Of all the men who currently have prostate cancer in the UK approximately 10,000 will die of the disease each year. The prostate cancer survival rate is much higher in the developed world – unsurprisingly.

When a man is first diagnosed with prostate cancer then the doctor who has found the cancer (most often a “urologist” – a surgeon who specialises in looking after problems to do with the kidneys, prostate and bladder) will arrange a series of tests to help assess the risk for that individual patient. The results of these tests will in turn help the doctor and patient to decide the best treatment for that patient.

Prostate Cancer Tests to Help Predict Survival

1. Prostate Specific Antigen or PSA

2. Digital Rectal Examination or DRE

3. Trans-rectal Ultrasound and Biopsy

4. CT or MRI Scan

5. Bone Scan

PSA

This is a protein made by the prostate gland which can be measured on a sample of your blood i.e. a blood test. The PSA level can be raised by non cancerous problems with the prostate gland i.e. not all men who have a raised PSA have prostate cancer. Also some men who have prostate cancer will not have a raised PSA. However PSA does tend to increase as prostate cancers grow, invade and spread so PSA can be used to monitor how a prostate cancer is progressing or how it is responding to treatments.

DRE

This is where a doctor feels the prostate gland through the back passage. It tells the doctor how big the prostate gland is, whether the cancer is able to be felt easily and whether it has invaded the area near by.

Tran-Rectal Ultrasound and Biopsy

For this test you need to lie on your side with your knees brought up into the chest (same position as for a DRE). An ultrasound probe is then inserted into the back passage. This enables the doctor to see on a screen the outline of the prostate gland. There is no radiation involved. The image on the screen then allows the doctor to insert a needle safely into the prostate gland to take some samples of the prostate tissue. Usually several samples are taken from each area of the prostate gland. These samples are then sent to a laboratory to be looked at under a microscope. This allows confirmation that there is prostate cancer present and tells us how aggressive the cancer looks. Sometimes a local anaesthetic is used to help make the procedure more comfortable.

CT or MRI Scan

This is usually carried out in an x-ray department and involves lying still on a thin couch which moves through either a big donut (CT) or into a long tunnel (MRI). This is not painful in any way. The pictures gained from this test helps the doctors to see whether the prostate cancer is still within the prostate gland or whether it had started to invade out of the gland into other surrounding structures. This tells the doctor what “stage” the prostate cancer is.

Bone Scan

This requires you to have an injection and then to lie on a special table where a camera scans the whole body. It shows up whether any of the bones in the body have been affected by the prostate cancer i.e. whether the prostate cancer has spread to the bones.

Prostate Cancer Stage and Survival

The stage of prostate cancer describes how far the cancer has grown and spread. It is assessed by a mixture of DRE and CT/MRI scans.

T1 Stage

This is very early prostate cancer which can only be seen under a microscope. At this stage the cancer would not cause any symptoms. Men with this stage are at low risk from their disease may not need any treatment but surveillance. The original cause of a prostate cancer problem can be difficult to diagnose.

T2 Stage

This is early prostate cancer but is now big enough to be felt by a doctor on DRE. This may still not have caused any symptoms. This is most often cured if treatment is undertaken at this stage and about 70% of men are still alive after 5 years i.e. average length of survival from diagnosis is well over 5 years.

T3 Stage

This is locally advanced prostate cancer which has started to extend and invade outside of the prostate gland. This stage would often cause bladder symptoms in men. By this stage in the disease the chance of cure with treatments is reduced however survival is often around five years.

T4 Stage

This is more advanced prostate cancer which invades the structures around the gland. At this stage there are often already secondaries e.g. bone metastases. If the disease has spread it is usually incurable but may be controlled for some time. The average survival is between 1 and 3 years.

Predicting Survival in Prostate Cancer

Doctors use a combination of risk factors to predict the behaviour of prostate cancer but cancers do not always act as expected. The factors they consider include the cancer stage (see above), the age of the patient, the PSA level and how quickly it is rising, and the Gleason Score. The Gleason score is a marker of how aggressive the cancer looks under the microscope and how much of the gland is affected by cancer.

The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an Australian group dedicated to the banishment of nuclear weapons. Their objective echoes the Russell-Einstein Manifesto issued in London in July 1955, which highlighted the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and called for world leaders to seek peaceful resolutions to international conflict. From the perspective of the current North Korea crisis, the Nobel Laureates, Russell and Einstein, failed to stop the development of nuclear weaponry. Although rigorous 21st Century scientific advice on this issue is available to upgrade their unsuccessful attempt, it lies beyond their tribal understanding of science.

Both scientists greatly influenced 20th Century cultural development. In 1903 Russell published his best known essay, A Free Mans's Worship , advocating the worship of a science obeying the extinction dictates of the second law of thermodynamics, which Einstein called the "Premier law of all of the sciences" . While their comprehension of quantum mechanical science at that time was pragmatic, recent discoveries in quantum biology cancer research demonstrated that it was founded upon an unbalanced scientific worldview.

For thousands of years human tribes needed, and some still need, to obtain religious permission to be granted access to infinity. Fighting to the death in accordance to the 'survival of the fittest' paradigm observable in nature was associated with this superstitious evolution of tribal intellect. Accordingly, tribes had no option but to develop militant cultures devoid of a concept of the infinite. However, during the 21st Century, DNA has revealed that all human tribes now belong to a single species and if that species continually harms itself then it is suffering from a form of mental cancer. The mathematician Georg Cantor, whose work now upholds most of modern science, wrote that this disorder of the mind was a " myopic fear of infinity inhabiting the scientific mind ".

The Nobel Laureate of Medicine Szent-Gyorgyi, founder of the American National Cancer Research Foundation, in his 1972 Letter to Science diagnosed that mythical fear of infinity as a form of social cancer belonging to our Neolithic ancestors. The previously heroic compulsion to wage war, once necessary for tribes to survive and evolve, can be now seen as a medical problem. Religious and other mythological persuasions, once necessary to excite moral tribal crusades to wage war now threaten humanity with nuclear extinction.

Obviously, tribal science is part of the human evolutionary process. Tribal science can be programmed into a computer to entangle itself with human survival biosphere information. However, this would require the use of infinite fractal logic in order to generate human survival simulations, contradicting the fundamental structure of tribal science. Szent-Gyorgyi realized that the evolution of consciousness belonged to infinite living information entangling with extinction energies, again a contradiction to the now obsolete tribal science. In 2016 his cancer research had been developed enough to discover the nature of the antidote he was searching for. The computer programming needed to generate the human survival blueprint needs to use the antidote information in order to achieve a science containing his cure for cancer objective. A similar research methodology, proposed in 1979 by China's most highly honored physicist, Kun Huang, was successfully used by Australian Science-Art researchers, to measure the life force governing the evolution of seashells.

That discovery was recorded in Italy's leading scientific journal during the 1980s. In 1990 the World's largest technological institute, IEEE in Washington, reprinted that achievement as one of the most important optical discoveries of the 20th Century, placed alongside such names as Louis Pasteur and Francis Crick.

Just as Huang predicted, tribal science's obsession with warfare would object to the idea of ​​life evolving towards infinity. Although the living mathematics found within the seashell fossil record was indisputably using ancient Greek geometrical concepts of infinity, the extinction obsession prevailed. When quantum mechanical mathematics was used to program the computer to generate futuristic seashell simulations, they became carcinogenic distortions, exactly as the Nobel laureate Szent-Gyorgyi predicted in 1972.

Ancient Greek philosophy contains vague atomic references associated specifically with ethical thought. The Stanford Encyclopedia – Ancient Atomism, revised Dec 2016 states " A number of important theorists in ancient Greek natural philosophy held that the universe is composed of physical 'atoms', literally' uncuttables. "

The general public, awaiting the abolition of nuclear weapons, needs know that such moral, atomic thinking was erased for centuries by the Christian Church and its associated political representatives and that visual evidence of this fact exists.

Marcilio Ficino was the Head of the Platonic Academy in Florence. In order to protect it from the Inquisition, he associated famous Christian figures from antiquity into aspects of his ethical atomic theories taught at his Academy. In 1480 the Vespucci family commissioned Leonardo da Vinci's mentor, Botticelli, to paint St Augustine in his Studio . The artist Ghirlandaio, also a mentor of da Vinci, was commissioned to paint St Jerome. Behind Botticelli's head of Augustine is a huge book next to another showing mathematical writing. The Saint is looking directly at a brass model used by geometers to explore cosmological reality. A spherical brass book-stud on the leather cover of the closed book is carefully placed into the orbit of his halo, a symbol of divine consciousness depicted by the image of an atom. This is not a coincidence. Ghirlandaio's painting shows a brass book-stud placed likewise into the orbit of Augustine's close colleague, St Jerome's halo. Whilst other evidence exists concerning ethical atomic functioning, these paintings were carefully designed to convey the idea of ​​ethical atomism.

Leonardo da Vinci was severely criticized by his peers at the Platonic Academy in Florence for having no substantial knowledge about the ethical, atomic, spiritual mathematics taught by his mentors, including the mathematician, Lucas Pacioli, and the philosopher, Marsilio Ficino. Not only was da Vinci ignorant of the ethical atomic purpose of the Academy but as a military engineer he was committed to warfare. The Christian Church tolerated no pagan Greek atomic theories associated with ethical thinking. Da Vinci was the Chief Military Engineer in the Pope's Army, so the church made sure that over the centuries his name would become an enduring symbol epitomizing the wisdom of the Great Italian Renaissance, when in fact the very opposite is true. However, links between emotional intuition concerning the nature of infinity, contrary to da Vinci's worldview, certainly do exist.

One such link is Charles Wheatstone's 1838 invention of the stereoscope. The journal, Nature , published his obituary, in which it was recorded that his invention demonstrated that Leonardo's conviction that the flat plane of a painting could not contain a 3D image, was incorrect.

Joy »¿James Joyce, regarded as one of the most influential ï» important and important authors of the 20th Century associated George Berkeley's New Theory of Vision (1709) with Wheatstone's invention of the stereoscope. Joyce referred to Berkeley's conviction that it was a fundamental geometrical truth that when parallel light rays fall on the eye, the senses were receiving an emotional geometrical intuition about the nature of infinite reality, which he described as " passions of the mind. "

Both Berkeley and Isaac Newton developed ancient Greek philosophies of science belonging to the workings of a living, infinite universe and both published statements that modern science was pretentious. Newton, in his published ' 28th Query Discussions ', stated emphatically that the pretentious science of his day embraced the idea that the universe was completely governed by mechanistic laws. He stated that the mass of objects in space was not the cause of gravitational force. In his Heresy Papers , discovered last century, he maintained that mechanistic science needed to be completed with a more profound spiritual (electromagnetic) philosophy based upon particles in motion. He was familiar with the above mentioned painting by Botticelli extolling the divine function of atomic particle movement. Whether Newton was right or wrong, quantum mechanics has been based upon the false assumption that he advocated the existence of a clockwork, mechanistic universe, when in reality he had advocated one balanced by infinite spiritual (electromagnetic) forces.

ï »¿Berkeley's spiritual optics work was considered acceptable to the Church because of its claim that his mathematical criticism of Newton and Leibniz's invention of calculus defended Christianity against any scientific disbelief in the worship of God. Coincidentally, during the 19th Century the invention of calculus was used by Michael Talbot as the basis of his holographic universe theory, where God becomes an ancient Greek mathematical, ethical, Godlike purpose, functioning within the workings of a holographic universe.

In conclusion, by rewriting tribal science, an optical, infinite, mathematical seashell physics discovery was made and acclaimed as one of the great discoveries of the 20th Century. We are now poised to locate the crucial visual physics information to obtain the human survival blueprint needed to eradicate our tribal compulsion to develop nuclear weaponry. This article has been published to advise where the crucial physics principles for human survival are located. It is where the famous philosopher of science, Immanuel Kant predicted. The new physics principles belong to Kant's asymmetrical, electromagnetic field evolving within the artistic, creative mind.

As Kant demonstrated, the future of humanity is not to be found by linking science to the aesthetics associated with a new brotherhood of man. Instead, these ennobling artistic sentiments must be balanced with the artistic spiritual wisdom sought by the philosopher, Plato. The crucial ethical data associated with the Science-Art human survival blueprint needs to be identified.

This crucial atomic data belongs to the visual ' passions of the mind ', provided by the ability of artists who are now unconsciously creating paintings that contain a myriad of interlocking stereoscopic 3D images, which Leonardo da Vinci was convinced could never exist.

The sooner that quantum Science-Art cancer research biologists can provide the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Group with indisputable scientific evidence that the new human survival science will make the development of nuclear weaponry a thing of the past, the better.

Whether your car breaks down, you are caught in a blizzard, a chemical spill or gas leak prevents you from getting home, or if there is massive civil unrest, you want to be prepared to make it on your own for a day or two until you can get home or get help. Food is not the most important priority, but it is a biggie, as having something to eat can take the edge off all the stress versus going hungry for a day or two.

Best Survival Snack – in the Woods or Trapped in Your Car

If you’re backpacking, the best snack is Frito corn chips. In addition to providing you with fat and salt and carbohydrates that you need when you are engaged in strenuous activities, Frito’s are an excellent fire starter. Due to the high oil content, you can put a match to a Frito and it will burn. That means that in addition to being a snack, they can save you the time of scrounging for tinder to start a fire, which you may need to boil water to make it safe to drink, cook food that you have trapped, or just keep warm.

Worst Survival Snacks – Foods to Avoid

Snickers bars or other high sugar snacks are not a good idea. Instead of the spike in energy and blood sugar that they provide, you need sustained energy, which comes from complex carbohydrates and protein. That being said, ensure that you have something, whether in your car or in your food stockpile, that you enjoy and will eat. The worst thing you can do is store in your trunk or stockpile in your pantry things that you don’t normally eat, but figure you would have to get used to in a tough situation.

Tough situations are stressful and any creature comforts you can supply yourself with are going to help you psychologically. Before the year 2000, the “Y2K” scare had many people stockpiling food for fear that society would breakdown due to computer failure. Many bought cases of beans, which they ended up throwing away because they didn’t want to eat them!

The Importance of Survival Snacks

Frequent snacking throughout the day is better for you in a survival situation than just eating three meals. Both with respect to caloric intake (physiologically) and your mood (psychologically), frequent snacking wins hands down over eating three big meals. A high calorie snack before bedtime in a cold environment will kickstart your metabolism and help you keep warm and sleep better. While most people can easily go three weeks without food before they are in any danger of starvation (and some even longer!), going without food compromises you in many ways.

If you look to the recent hurricanes which have devastated the united states and you didn't have a flashlight then I hope you are paying attention.

When you are given advanced warning about leaving then it is time to gather your "bug out bag" as we call them. In that bag, there should be a "survival LED flashlight". Why a special flashlight you ask? Below I have outlined why they are better than the old incandescent type.

• First, they will last a long time on normal set of batteries. Compared to the old flashlights the new survival LED flashlight will last months compared to just days for the old style.
• Secondly a LED bulb will last at least 50,000 hours because they draw such a small amount of current.
• Most of the best survival flashlights are made of aircraft aluminum with threaded battery compartments which are mostly waterproof. They can be purchased completely waterproof with rubber o rings.
• Many of the newer survival LED flashlights come with T-6 LED bulbs which are super bright and with the new technique of using mirrored glass or highly polished chrome metal to amplify the light output.
• Another thing that is nice about these LED flashlights are their size. With a small footprint, you can shine a bright spot the length of a football field away.
• Many of the latest model survival LED flashlights have three modes of operation; click once for SOS signaling, click twice for strobe effect, and click again to return to normal operation.

To sum it up, you need one of these newer flashlights in your car, your home, and in your survival bag.

Wilderness survival is tough. You know it and I know it. It takes drive, dedication and strength to master the art of surviving by yourself in a desolate environment.

This is exactly why you need an equally TOUGH survival knife.

Many survival knives will break, crack or rust when you try to use them for outdoor survival.

Tanto survival knives are extremely HOT at the moment. Here are five things to remember:

1. The reinforced point style makes tanto survival knives EXTRA strong. This will come in handy for you if you need to pry, twist, or puncture with the point of your knife.

2. Your tanto survival knife will have a primary and secondary grind. The primary grind is the long part of the knife-edge.

The secondary grind is the smaller, upward slanted portion of your knife’s edge.

This feature is really useful for making snap-cuts and other unique cuts. Remember to adjust your sharpening angle when you get to the secondary grind.

3. Some tanto survival knives come with a hollow handle. Hollow handles come in handy for wilderness survival in a couple of ways.

– You can store important survival ingredients in your hollow handle.

– Put a wooden stick inside of the handle and make a spear!

4. Serrated survival knives can be very convenient at first. They will cut through rope or wire with ease and require little attention.

Remember that the serrations will break off eventually and leave you with a disfigured blade that doesn’t perform like it should.

5. Rust on knives can be like a cancer. Once it shows up, it will often spread like a wildfire.

You should keep your tanto survival knife dry if at all possible, and apply a light coat of oil at the end of a hard day’s work.

Some hollow handle survival knives are made will steel handles. Don’t forget that these types of handles will also rust if not cared for just like a steel blade.

The most basic requirement in facing the harsh conditions of the outdoors, especially during winter, is proper clothing. Dressing up appropriately for all the expected conditions is your first line of defense when considering your safety. Have you heard of the "three layer system"? This is a popular term for people who are seriously into extreme outdoor activities like winter hiking and climbing. But even if you are not into these things, it is still best to be aware as to when or if ever a situation or an emergency arises, you will know how to be protected in the winter cold. As you go through the rest of this article, you will find out the types of clothes you need for your emergency winter survival gear.

The first of this three layer system is the base or inner layer which is the clothes directly in contact with your skin. This is actually not just to absorb body moisture. Primarily, this layer should wick the sweat away from your body and somehow send the moisture to the other layers of clothing so it can eventually evaporate. A secondary function is for additional insulation that is most needed in extremely cold weather condition. Examples of these clothes are capilene shirts, thin socks, thinsulate hats and full tights or leggings.

The second or mid layer is mainly for insulation. Examples are fleece jackets, wool hats, wool socks, wool mittens and wool pants. Notice that these are thicker fabrics than those you need to wear as the base layer. It is best to use garments that are made of polyester, wool and fleece. Down fabrics are good for insulation but is not really effective as an aid in the moisture wicking process, so try to do away with this as much as possible.

The third and outer most layers is referred to as the "shell" which aids in repelling water from snow, rain, fog and dew. These are also for protection against wind and act as a shield against scrapes, abrasion and chafing. This layer may include a hooded parka, nylon pants, rubber boots and leather over mittens.

The mixing and matching of the above garments will depend on both the amount of heat and cold needed by the body during winter survival. Bear in mind the basic rule, the mantra, in surviving such weather conditions, "cool and dry stay alive". Too much sweating is not good so you have to limit the garments in such a way that you are also getting enough coolness to limit the sweating process.

Proper winter clothing gears are among the basics in winter survival but all of us know that there is more to just wearing good clothes in order to survive such conditions. You also have to be ready with other emergency winter survival gears like flashlight, whistles and a GPS handheld unit if possible. You can check stores that offer these things to be sure that you will be well protected in such explorations.