A Popularity Contest to Avoid
More Articles Related to BlogWhat are the top ways to meet your end in the outdoors? Lions and tigers and bears? An angry stingray? Not likely. While there are many ways to loose your life in the wilderness, a mere handful account for about 90% of fatalities. And they are not necessarily the ways you might think.
Perhaps not surprisingly, falls and drowning rank number one and number two respectively. Watersports are very popular and the shear numbers of people who go into or out onto the water every year guarantee many drowning victims. Falls from high places are much less likely, but the end results of such falls are prone to be more catastrophic on average than many of the other mistakes people make.
A must read for your survival, avoid this Darwinian popularity contest by reading Most Popular Ways to Die in the Wilderness.
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