You Can Stay Alive

You Can Stay Alive is a practical wilderness survival manual drawn from more than thirty-five years of hands-on backcountry experience. Larry J. Wells and Roger D. Giles teach how to control panic, maintain body temperature, treat hypothermia and heat disease, build snow caves and emergency shelters, find water and food, navigate hazards like lightning, avalanche, and flash floods, and aid rescuers. Packed with real-life case studies and clear instructions, it's a compact, life-saving reference for hikers, hunters, scout leaders, and any family that ventures outdoors.

• Written by an actual Search and Rescue member who debunks the dangerous myth that a cell phone will save you
• Every chapter backed by real, sometimes fatal, case studies from 35+ years of leading survival programs
• Unusually thorough on heat disease and dehydration—the killers most survival books underplay
• Compact enough to keep in your pack; detailed enough to actually save your life

“Survival is no accident.”

Perfect for a hiker, hunter, scout leader, or preparedness-minded parent in the Intermountain West who wants a compact, experience-based survival reference to keep in a pack or vehicle.