U.S. Navy SEAL Guide to Mountain and Arctic Survival Secrets

Return to Book Page. High altitudes create unique survival situations, from safe movement to health to dealing with injuries. Could you survive an avalanche? Resuscitate a colleague suffering from hypothermia? Recognize the early signs of frostbite and prevent causing serious injury?

Learn how to deal with the issues and and other invaluable mountain and arctic survival skills from expert Don High altitudes create unique survival situations, from safe movement to health to dealing with injuries. Learn how to deal with the issues and and other invaluable mountain and arctic survival skills from expert Don Mann.

U.S. Navy SEAL Guide to Mountain and Arctic Survival Secrets by Don Mann

He covers common illnesses, adapting to mountain weather, staying warm, building shelter, finding food, and much more. Kindle Edition , 36 pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about U. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. JB rated it really liked it Dec 09, Ivan rated it liked it Oct 27, Ryan marked it as to-read Jan 15, Steve marked it as to-read Jan 29, Lee Kirkpatrick marked it as to-read Feb 09, Justin French marked it as to-read Jan 06, My mission now is to help as many regular Americans prepare for an increasingly dangerous world as possible.

You and the good, honest people like you who have busy lives And quite frankly, you probably don't want to! And let's face it — even if you did want to enter SEAL training — you simply can't drop it all and run off to play soldier, because you have responsibilities like putting food on the table for your family.

But the fact is the world is a dangerous place and it's getting more dangerous with each passing day. Maybe I sound like an old man but I blame it on the "everyone gets a trophy" crap that the past few generations have been raised on! If you want to make believe that it's all just fine, then keep your head in the sand and leave this page right now. The cold, hard reality is that the vast majority of people — including you — are simply not equipped to successfully deal with sudden catastrophe — which can claim hundreds or even thousands of lives.

Also, you absolutely MUST be prepared to face personal danger from violent and vicious criminals and potentially fatal mishaps and accidents, which are happening more and more as time goes on Until then, I will do everything in my power to teach you how to be a survivor and not a statistic. In this book, I provide a step-by-step plan for action to keep you alive during the most deadly circumstances.

When a crazed psycho or a bloodthirsty religious zealot starts shooting innocent people in a public place, the police call it an "Active Shooter" event Whether it's a terrorist, a personal vendetta, a religious or political agenda or just plain crazy — these heavily armed lunatics simply want to MURDER as many people as possible! In fact, many of these scumbags tally up the record of previous mass shootings — and make elaborate plans to try to beat the "high score"! First, most active shooter killers choose a " Soft Target " — any public place with large groups of people that are most likely to be defenseless and little security.

Think malls, public markets and schools. Every time you enter a potential "soft target" from now on, I want you to immediately follow the 4-step "Situational Awareness Checklist" on page Step 1 is common sense: You should locate all the exits. Have at least three options, preferably in three different directions.

Fire-exit doors in many public buildings are required by law to be at the rear of the building, or the back of department stores in malls. There are still three MORE steps you want to go through for complete situational awareness that we don't have time to go into here again, you'll find them all on page Follow the simple checklist and if something goes down — you'll be prepared with the intel you need. Second, the national average time it takes for police to show up at the scene after a high-priority call is 10 minutes and 30 seconds.

That means the police will NOT be there to save you. For example, during the VA Tech shooting, 32 people were dead within minutes and the police weren't even notified until 15 minutes after the shooting began! And it's up to you to survive and save anyone and everyone you care about. The information in these few short pages could truly save your life, because it's the battle-tested "military tricks" we used on the battlefield every. In other words, if elite Special Operations teams use these tips, techniques and strategies to save their lives in the "hot" zones of vicious combat in Iraq and Afghanistan For example, the three most common weapons used in an active shooter situation are 9 mm handguns like the VA Tech killer Remember this to potentially save your life: You have to know what is effective " cover " that will stop these bullets!

For example, bricks and concrete will stop all of the above rounds from penetrating. But the wall of a typical house made of plywood, 2x4-inch studs and drywall most definitely will not. And most people don't know this, but even the body of a car is easily penetrated by all these bullets! In the SEAL teams, if we needed to take cover behind a vehicle, we tucked behind the wheels.

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The tires at the front of the car are better, because the engine block and axles provide additional fortification and make it good cover. On page 45 you'll see the other objects that provide good cover in a mall, outdoors or practically anywhere that could be a "soft target.

I'll also teach you the "Sniper Walk" for maximum stealth so you don't give away your position perfect for keeping yourself hidden while you set up a vicious ambush to take the shooter out! And then there's stuff you ONLY pick up if you're lucky enough to survive two or three tours of ferocious, close-quarters urban combat Because when a bullet hits and ricochets off a wall, it tends to "skip" and travel down the wall within approximately six inches of it.

If you're hugging the wall, you will get hit! There are still 5 more steps — 6 in total — that if you follow step by step can ensure you and the people you're responsible for make it out alive. Finally, in step 6 you might find the most important part, because you'll see how to NOT get shot by the police when they finally arrive.

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It would be truly tragic to save your life and the lives of your loved ones — potentially engaging and eliminating the crazed gunman — only to get shot by the other good guys that show up because they see you holding a weapon. You could easily be a victim of what we call "friendly fire" if you don't know how to react AFTER you take out the bad guy. Now, there's more to the SEAL Survival Guide than simply handling murderous thugs that are going crazy and shooting at people, because despite how much the popular media plays it up, it's still — statistically at least — a relatively rare event.

These are the simplest and easiest skills, techniques and strategies you can learn and yet they can ALL save you or your family's life if you ever experience a crisis situation. For example, if you find yourself lost in the wilderness — the desert, woods or even a frozen wasteland — you need to know where you're going so you don't end up walking in circles.

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That's why I show you 2 easy ways to make an improvised compass. Method 1 uses your watch and works anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere Simply take it off and point the hour hand at the sun. In the Northern Hemisphere that line is south, and opposite that direction is north. On page I'll show you another method to make an improvised compass even if you don't have a watch.

According to the latest FBI statistics, 1 out of every 4 Americans will be the victim of violent crime at some point in their lives. An estimated 1 in 3 women are the victim of some type of sexual assault in their lifetime. And most experts agree even that number is too low because so many women refuse to report they've been victimized!

Especially when the solutions are so simple and easy to learn. Your life is worth it. Your wife's life is worth it. And there's more too Most civilians have zero clue about assessing the potential for violence in a surprise confrontation with a criminal. And dozens of other "must know" bits of information.

But that's just your average criminal. Let's talk about terrorists. If there is one thing I learned while fighting during multiple combat tours in the "hot" zones of Iraq and Afghanistan , it's this The things that some terrorists will do to innocent, defenseless people is enough to make your blood curdle. A tactical instructor I know likes to say, "Anything is a weapon if you hold it right. Once you've adopted the SEAL mindset as I'll show you — you'll see that all around you are improvised weapons you can use to save your life or the lives of the people you care about!

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And unlike some "self-defense gadgets" that are disguised to look like something else, you never have to worry about a power-hungry TSA agent confiscating your lifesaving tools. A former teammate of mine was on a raid in Iraq when both his rifle and handgun went down. He had to perform an instantaneous assessment of what was within his reach that he could turn into a weapon As the enemy charged, he grabbed a toaster oven and used it as an "improvised weapon.

That's a weird but true story — but it proves how improvisation, physical and mental toughness, and utilizing the SEAL mindset can save your life! Speaking of weapons, you may be surprised when you flip to the chapter on firearms and discover Over my 9 years of active duty I fired so many thousands of rounds that running practically any weapons system became like an extension of my own body.

But you might be surprised that I only spend a few pages in this guide talking about firearms in general. There's a reason for that: What's between your ears is far more important than ANY gun you can hold in your hand! It doesn't matter how big the gun That's why instead of an AR — which is the most popular rifle in America — I recommend a totally different gun for Home Defense. The unique firearm that I recommend instead check page for the exact model is so powerful that the Germans in World War I It killed so many German soldiers in Trench Warfare, the German Government issued a diplomatic protest claiming it was illegal because it violated the Hague Convention!

Thankfully, it was never banned, and this amazing firearm has been used in every recent U. War and conflict since then because of its devastating effectiveness. Because it's important to remember when it comes to firearms — the root word of "Gunfight" is not "gun," it's " FIGHT! It's a scientific fact: Every person no matter how big, strong or skilled they are has the exact same vulnerable points on their body. These are the areas that ancient Martial Arts Myths have whispered about in secret for hundreds of years It doesn't matter how jacked up with steroid-swollen muscle or strung out on pain-numbing, strength-enhancing drugs If you take out even one of these vulnerable areas — he'll drop like a rock!

You may think you know some of these spots like the testicles , but I assure you unless you've experienced some of the most savage hand-to-hand training in the world — you don't know the three BEST vulnerable target points I show you in this book. In short, if you don't already have a Black Belt or equivalent training in a hardcore martial art like Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or Boxing — then you simply don't know how to fight, and I'm URGING you to flip to page as soon as you open your book and study the diagram on that page.

And how to attack these targets using gross motor movements that you can do without being coordinated or even thinking NEVER use fancy kicks or other Hollywood B. You can take out practically any attacker even multiple armed people Doesn't matter if you're jumped in a dark alley in the middle of a blizzard and you can't see or think straight and your hands are frozen stiff And it doesn't matter if you're injured or just unathletic and uncoordinated because you're old, crippled or completely out of shape Or even if you're held at knife- or gunpoint, or attacked by someone stronger, faster and way more experienced than you Look, the SEALs don't have years to spend training to get black belts.

Of course a lot of guys in "The Teams" do that on their own time, but there's simply too much other specialized War Fighter training that needs to happen to spend hundreds of hours learning some fancy martial art. Once you download this "quick-learn" fight info and practice it just a few times — you'll take on the confident posture of a seriously dangerous opponent. And after you know how to fight, when they see someone like you coming — with your confident, chest-up posture and head on a swivel — they'll choose a different victim because you look like a "hard target.

This is the reason you hardly ever hear of real-life badass black belts getting into a street fight. It's because most criminals don't want a real fight — they want a victim! And even worse, Home Invasions now account for 1 in every 4 robberies because the traditional targets like gas stations and convenience stores are so much harder to rob.

Home Invasions are a predetermined, more sophisticated, better-planned and often much, MUCH more violent crime Learning the skills necessary to fight back and survive a home invasion are essential now and are even more important if the stakes for survival get even higher — for example, in the aftermath of a catastrophic event. Think riots and looting after Hurricane Katrina, when the police are nowhere to be found! When you get your book, you should immediately "arm" yourself with the information starting on page And pay special attention to the section on "Tiger Kidnapping," because almost nobody is talking about this dangerous threat today.

In special operations "black ops," we would often have to breach military jargon for "break into" the known hideout of a bad guy. Most Hollywood movies only portray door-kicking "dynamic entry" — that's where we blow the door off the hinges and storm in to dominate the corners of the room using maximum speed, surprise and violence-of-action