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Das Survival-Duo: Zwei Männer, ein Ziel
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Nearly ten years before the publication of 98.6 Degrees in 2003, I had been thinking about writing a book about outdoor survival skills. I wanted to do something "different" in the survival book genre and focus exclusively upon the issues facing the vast majority of modern outdoor enthusiasts, and why many of them came home dead. I knew I would experience fallout from some readers and survival instructors alike who were enslaved by out dated, mind numbing concepts of what a modern survival book should contain. These misconceptions had been indoctrinated and perpetuated since time began by old military survival manuals that while cool, were geared for combat and “living off the land,” not surviving a day hike gone bad and dealing with hypo and hyperthermia--statistically the biggest killers of all outdoor travelers. I also knew that I wanted to go with a real publisher. Self-publishing seemed like an endless, self-marketing journey, complete with sagging leaf springs from a vehicle overloaded with poorly photocopied “books” held together with staples. Worse yet, I had to pay someone to print them!
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I started ALSS in 1991, and have been teaching wilderness survival skills and primitive living skills since the late 1980’s. Urban survival followed. ALSS is the oldest school in the southwest teaching modern outdoor survival, primitive living skills, and urban preparedness; and being more than three decades old, is one of the oldest continuously run survival schools in North America. I’ve had a strong interest in the outdoors and native skills since I was a kid.