Jessie Krebs just wants to go for a hike and feel raw rock beneath her thrift-store boots. She doesn’t want to be responsible for her companions, or to try to save or heal or teach them. That’s ...

Imagine this: you're hiking through the San Juan Mountains in the Rockies, and you see an empty cabin as the sun starts to set. Night is going to fall soon, and the cabin is empty, well-equipped, and ...

In an anxious time, courses in wilderness survival and military tactics are thriving. Sarah Beth Riess took part in the California Survival School’s weekend-long course in survival and evasion.Credit.

The internet is abuzz about Yellowjackets, Showtime’s new series about a high school soccer team that gets stranded in the Canadian wilderness for 19 months after a plane crash (and, on a split ...