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The Five O´Clock Mate The British have created a very interesting tradition that can be easily adapted to the use of mate tea; we have done just that, and we enjoy our mate at five PM each day as we build our stone labyrinth in the Andes. Giving Another Flavour To Your Mate Tea Mate tea is an excellent beverage for any sort of outdoor adventure, and like traditional tea it can be flavoured in different ways to turn it more interesting. Mate And Soup As Survival Food It is a little bit monotonous if you try to survive just on soup and mate for a month or so; you will indeed keep alive but it is boring just to have the same every day. However, the first advantage of using such an extreme but nutritious diet is that you will lose weight during expeditions but be perfectly able from a health point of view to eat more during the rest of the year Leave Some Mate Gear In Your Caches Not only it is good to have some mate tea during any sort of trek or adventure, but it is advisable to leave the things required to prepare it in expedition stashes or caches as well. How To Carry Your Mate Into The Wilderness Anyone who has ever been in southern South America knows what mate is and that thre are many different types of items used to prepare and drink this beverage. Why Didn't The Egyptians Build Pyramids In Paris? It is interesting to think about the possible reasons that precluded such an advanced society from establishing colonies thorough the Mediterranean, and the answer might just be found in the local botanical landscape. The Origins Of Naval And Marine Technology The construction of boats and vessels is tightly related to survival as well as to exploration and the progress of mankind. Without adequate ships, many civilisations of ancient times would not have expanded and the world of today would also certainly be different: both Vikings and Phoenicians are good examples, and especially the latter one, with specific regard as to their meaning within the evolutionary process of the Western culture; thanks to the Phoenicians and their commercial expansion we have our alphabet. The Citroên-Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition It is quite an experience to travel by truck, and drivers have a whole and fascinating subculture of their own; sometimes, overlanding or navigating with trucks over terrain becomes quite difficult and dangerous. How Many Everests Did Exist? All along the geological history of our planet, some mountain has been the highest one, but it wasn't always Mount Everest. Time has quite another value when the geological history of a planet is considered: our 70 to 80 years life - on average - are minuscule when compared with breathtaking time lapses spanning over aeons, and our pretty modest perspective on time scales leaves us with a very narrow comprehension of what really happens around us, in our world. An Objection To Those Who Object Whenever something like our Motoco stone maze is revealed, the world is never short of those that begin criticising and to whom only one thing should be objected for the sake of brevity: Their uselessness. Navigating With Your Brains Oceanic or long-range navigation over the water always requires two things: suitable vessels and good means to establish positions and courses. Even in the middle of the most dire survival situation it is possible to navigate successfully, as many examples of shipwreck survivors stranded on boats and rafts prove: people have managed to survive thanks to good instruments or their navigational skills, or both. The Treasure Ships Only few times you will be able to get significant prizes without significant efforts: during the thirteenth century China had the most advanced naval and marine technology in the world, and as the ancient nation was attempting to expand its dominions and power, it began to develop oceanic commerce but had to make very significant investments in engineering and the construction of enormous shipyards. Fire As A Local Environmental Cleanser And Countermeasure Against Infections If you ever spent a night outdoors, in a swampy area, cold or tropical but filled with small insects, you surely know what it means to be attacked by swarms of mosquitoes, flies and other exasperating creations of nature; a good use of fire will save you from such a disgrace. Trekking Advice: How To Purchase Your Next Tent Practical tips for choosing the tent that you will take with you in your next outdoor adventure. Trekking Advice: Your New Sleeping Bag As in the case of tents, a sleeping bag constitutes a significant investmet. Good sleeping bags are expensive, and considering that they may last for many years, it is convenient to think about the issue before purchasing one. What Determines The Height Of The Tallest Mountains? The Everest is the highest mountain on the surface of Earth and is still growing higher as the Indian subcontinent pushes northwards into Asia, and for geophysical reasons, mountains in our planet could not grow much more than that. The Highest Garbage In The World Mount Everest attracts thousands of visitors each year that leave thousands of kilos of all sorts of garbage without much of a fuss. Natural Medicine At Work For Good And Evil In primitive societies, knowledge of medicine develops only along two different lines: belief and empirical practice. The first has to do a lot with superstition, ideology and religion, and I perhaps should add that even political ideology can be thought to produce allegedly miraculous results in the department of spontaneous cure, like what happened during the cultural revolution, in China: then and there, some people believed that Mao's Red Book would even save them from death and cure them from any infection. Tips from a Mountaineer: This is the Cost of the Lack of Prudency. On February 2000, I was in command of an expedition group with the task of establishing two blizzard shelters on the Motoco Valley, at 42 degrees south, at the border between Argentina and Chile. We also had to perfect one shelter already existing at Lake Las Brisas, and to map the unexplored valley with a GPS system. Tactical Rescue What makes a tactical rescue different from other sorts of emergency operations? Palaeontology And Survival From palaeontology, which is the science that essentially studies fossils from plants and animals, we can learn a lot about survival in its broadest terms. Palaeontology teaches us about the history of life in our planet and maybe, if in the future we discover other planets capable of sustaining life, it will also explain about the survival of living entities there too, wherever that may be. Primitive Comfort And Privacy In survival situations, or during long term expeditions, one of the things that it is important to procure for each one involved is some degree of primitive comfort that should go a little further than a set of MREs or 'meals ready to eat,' as provided in their packages. For people not to fall under undue stress, and in order to keep morale high, it is necessary to do a little bit more Is It Right To Violate The Law In Order To Survive? If you have to opt between two evils; always opt for the lesser one. Do We Tend To Deviate From Our Path As We Walk And Navigate? Although it is true that as we move and navigate thorough any kind of terrain errors accumulate, there is not a single reason that explains why we cannot navigate in perfectly straight lines.

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