What You'll Learn

🎒 Wilderness Preparation: Discover how to prepare before you head into remote country as well as how to prevent the most common mistakes.

🩺 Safety Measures: Learn how to stay warm by selecting proper clothing and making fire, as well as how to stay hydrated and prevent heat illness.

🪢 Essential Skills: Know the appropriate methods and techniques for using a knife,  weaving cordage, making fire, purifying water, tying knots, and building emergency shelters

🆘 Handling Emergencies: Understand how to get out alive when mishap occurs by being able to navigate over difficult terrain or signal for rescue. 

Benefits

📜 Receive Certificates of Completion: Automatically generated when you finish all course lessons and achieve a 70% or better on quizzes (can take as many times as necessary).

🛠 Practical Readiness: Gain life-saving skills that prepare you for real-world backcountry emergencies.

🌲 Boost Outdoor Confidence: Venture into the wild with the assurance that you know how to deal with survival situations and come out alive.

🌍 Stronger Connection to Nature: Engage deeply with your surroundings through the practice of ancient and modern survival strategies.

Why Choose Us?

🧑‍🏫 Expert Instruction: Our lectures and other course materials are the same as those used in classes at elite universities to train field professionals.

🏅Proven Results: Hundreds of students have enhanced their outdoor skills through our programs—many using their newfound expertise in field jobs or other outdoor efforts.

📚 Comprehensive Curriculum: Includes video lectures, analysis exercises, quizzes, and flashcard examples giving you the all the tools needed to become a master tracker.

We're so sure that you'll love Wilderness Survival that we're offering an outrageous guarantee: You have 14 days after the course starts to change your mind and ask for a refund. No hassle, no questions asked, no hard feelings!

Matthew Hunter

Matthew Hunter is the creator of courses in wilderness survival and foraging. He has filmed over 150 videos about survival skills and edible wild plants, and is a specialist in teaching useful survival skills, having spent months at a time alone honing his craft in some of the most remote country in North America. 

He regularly leads plant walks in his local area and is an expert in the edible and medicinal flora of multiple regions and maintains a foraging blog, and is the author of several foraging books. He has practiced foraging for over a decade and has developed mastery in recognizing useful plants, harvesting them, and preparing them as a food source or as herbal remedies.

In his own words:

"When I was seventeen years old I started camping, hiking, foraging and learning survival skills, and spent years sorting through countless books and videos, learning without a clear direction and having to deal with the pain of my own mistakes as my biggest teacher. I wasted TIME learning impractical skills, wasted MONEY on equipment I didn't need, and spent many MISERABLE nights doing things the WRONG way.

I wanted to know how the Native Americans lived and survived in the past. Why don't we still eat the plants they used to eat? Surely we are surrounded by edible plants, but we just don't know about them, right? I took in-person classes which were a big help, but they were expensive, and most only scratched the surface on what I wanted to know about the outdoors.

I wanted to create a better alternative.

My hunch was that that edible plants surround us proved to be absolutely right. Wild plants are everywhere and I learned about their amazing nutritional benefits and importance as emergency or survival food. I quickly started learning plants and amassing a small library of wild food books, and I was amazed at the new world I was discovering right in my own neighborhood!

I did the same in learning survival skills, and then started putting together exactly what I wished I had when I was learning: a clear, concise guide that takes you step-by-step through the most important, practical skills for foraging and surviving in the outdoors. The materials are designed to supercharge the learner with knowledge on almost every major topic, covering a breadth of information that would be impossible to cover in a typical weekend course.

In the ten years since I began teaching these courses, I've found that online instruction is very effective if students are willing to put in the 'dirt' time. Plus, getting outside means you will learn about other aspects of nature too, all the while having FUN in the process!"