🔥 Start life-saving fires that will keep you warm and dry throughout the night in a survival situation.

🏕 Build shelters that protect you from the elements and potentially dangerous animals using natural materials.

💧 Find and purify water using a variety of methods, making it safe to drink and preventing dehydration.

🧵 Make cordage for emergency ropes by weaving natural fibers from common plants.

🗺 Navigate without GPS using maps, compasses, and nature’s signs to find your way confidently.

🎒 Select proper gear before you travel so you avoid common mistakes leading to survival situations.

🧥 Choose the right clothing to maintain body temperature and avoid exposure-related illnesses in extreme environments.

🚙 Prepare your vehicle for remote travel, ensuring you have the necessary tools and know what to do if stranded.

🌡 Keep warm in cold conditions by mastering heat retention techniques and layering strategies.

🥵 Prevent heat illness by recognizing early warning signs and implementing hydration and cooling techniques.

🔪 Master knife handling skills to efficiently cut, carve, and shape implements for survival tasks.

🪢 Tie essential knots for securing shelters, gear, making repairs, and other emergency uses.

🆘 Signal for help using fire, mirrors, sound, and other techniques to increase your chances of being rescued.

🌍 Feel deeply connected to nature by mastering the essential skills of survival and self-reliance.

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.

Stop Heading into the Wilderness Unprepared

Wilderness survival isn’t about having fancy gear—it’s about understanding your environment, staying calm under pressure, and having the skills to handle the unexpected.

When things go wrong, knowledge is your most powerful tool. Knowing how to start a fire, build a shelter, or find water can be the difference between discomfort—and disaster.

With real survival skills, you won’t just explore nature—you’ll thrive in it. You’ll understand how to navigate tough terrain, avoid dangerous mistakes, and stay safe even when the unexpected occurs.

Confidence in the wild means you can protect yourself, assist others, and enjoy the outdoors with peace of mind.

These skills are within your reach—don’t let fear or uncertainty hold you back.

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!

Right now, you have an opportunity to fundamentally change the way you approach the wild. Imagine exploring the backcountry with the confidence and skills of seasoned survivalists—people who can read the land, respond to emergencies, and thrive in the wild.

— OR —

You can continue relying on luck, hoping your gear holds up, and risk being unprepared for the unexpected challenges of the outdoors.

The choice is yours.

By mastering survival skills that have stood the test of time, you can transform every outdoor experience into one of safety, discovery, and empowerment. If you love nature and value your safety, is it really a choice at all?

Students Say Learning These Skills is a Game Changer

Taylor Chapman ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"The skills that I have gained from this course have been invaluable. Over the years, I have taken my fair share of online courses and this is one of the best ones that I have ever taken because it is fantastically organized. The exercises are a great way to assess what you have learned, and the information presented wasn't overwhelming and was very easy to follow."

Mahima Sharma ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"The course experience was brilliant and I to want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to the instructor because his knowledge on the subject is so vast as evidenced in the videos, study exercises, papers, and supplemental materials he provides. The way the course progresses is so endearing and so interesting, you’ll be hooked from the start!"

Michelle Bernstein ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"I loved this course and it has been one of the most practical and interesting I have taken in my career. Courses infrequently allow you to strengthen your personal relationship while also increasing your professional knowledge and this course did that. It taught me something both fun and beneficial because the things I learned I can use both with my family and in my career."

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!"