It's a school with no computers, no televisions, no cell phones, no light switches, no amenities. If you want food or water, you're pretty much on your own. The classroom is the great outdoors - and ...

Lots of things can go wrong during a commercial spaceflight -- especially once your capsule leaves space. An unplanned ocean landing is just one of those worst-case scenarios. From time to time, I get ...

Our National Parks columnist took an ‘Alone’-inspired course. These are the four wildest National Parks where he's putting his survival skills to the test. Here’s the hypothetical scenario: You find ...

Adventure Adviser: If you’ve never taken a course through Boulder Outdoor Survival School, you’re in for quite a trip. The mission of BOSS is to “develop the proficiency of primitive skills in an ...

Preparedness is and always has been an important part of military life as well as an encouraged practice for Family members and civilian employees. Nature Reliance School, which is located about two ...

“Looks like your shelters are about to be tested!” our instructor says as the temperature drops and a massive front rolls off the Continental Divide. The air fills with ozone as eight of us run into ...

Twenty-eight participants recently completed the country's first cave-survival training for astronauts, according to the ...

HEADQUARTERS, U. S. ARMY ALASKA, FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska - With temperatures dropping below minus 20, Soldiers here in Alaska brace for the long, cold winter where training doesn't stop just because ...