SURVIVAL – IRISH STYLE
everything and go naked into the wilds. “The five-minute
“Both extremes can get people killed,”
he said.“I’m not a gun-toting wacko and fire is the most
I’m not a polar bear hugger, but in the
middle ground, so I’ll take skills from the important thing
army, the Lakota Indians, the Bushmen,
Aborigines, Japanese...from anyone that you can take
has something which works.”
away from any ofIrish style
these courses, so,
One of the unique things about this unleash your inner
course was having the skills we were
learning tailored to Irish conditions, pyromaniac, carry
so we’d practise survival techniques
for a rainy landscape of bog, rock and a lighter and test
Coillte forestry. Just to live outdoors with
minimal kit and using natural resources, everything you see
let alone be comfortable,Aebhric
emphasised, we’d usually need to stay in the woods, and
warm, find water and gather food.
The gloomy woods around us didn’t
seem a likely provider of two of these learn what burns
wants.“In Ireland finding water is
usually easy but making a five-minute and how.”
Aebhric works on a fi ve-minute fi re
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