Ten Essentials
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The Ten Essentials are survival items that hiking and Scouting organizations recommend for safe travel in the backcountry.
A simple dry magnetic pocket compass
A multi-tool
Survival skills
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Survival skills are techniques used to sustain life in any type of natural environment or built environment. These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human life, including water, fo
Ten Essentials
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Astronauts participating in tropical survival training at an Air Force Base near the Panama Canal, 1963. From left to right are an unidentified trainer, Neil Armstrong, John H. Glenn Jr., L. Gordon Cooper, and Pete Conrad. Survival training is important for astronauts, as a launch abort or misguided reentry could potentially land them in a remote wilderness area.
A first aid kit containing equipment that can treat common injuries and illness.
Photo release by the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation depicting a shelter built from tarp and sticks. Pictured are displaced people from the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Hydration pack manufactured by Camelbak.