Escape From Hell: Start Fire w Battery & Gum
Being stuck in the middle of nowhere in several feet of snow is a bad enough situation but add no way of starting a fire and you're in for one very long and cold night. In this episode of Escape From Hell Sebastian Boucheris is forced to spend the night in heavy snow with no way of making a fire other than rubbing sticks together. Unless you're an old pro with lots of experience, creating fire from the friction by rubbing sticks together is no easy task even in the best of conditions.
Bear Grylls who is a master at starting fire using the friction method, first tries his hand at starting a fire in the same conditions that Boucher was in during his survival situation. With everything still moist from the recent snow, this even proved impossible for Bear Grylls to get a spark going under these extreme conditions.
Because Sebastion was never able to get a fire going that night, it came very close to costing his life as he almost froze to death as a result. Boucher obviously didn't have any traditional way to start a fire on him, but what he did have was a flashlight and a stick of gum which was all he needed if he had only known about this wilderness survival technique to create fire.
In this episode of "Escape From Hell" Bear Grylls demonstrates how easy it is to use a battery and a stick of gum to start a fire in even the worst of conditions.. Bear uses the aluminum foil off a piece of gum to short the battery out and create a flame. Had Sabastian known this simple technique to start a fire fast, that very long night could have been accompanied with a heat source and a "Friend" keeping him company until the next day. If you have even been lost (mis-located) in the woods and forced to spend the night, you probably know exactly what I mean. Fire is truly a life saver under any survival situation and one you should always have several ways of making anytime you're in the Great Outdoors.
Because Sebastion was never able to get a fire going that night, it came very close to costing his life as he almost froze to death as a result. Boucher obviously didn't have any traditional way to start a fire on him, but what he did have was a flashlight and a stick of gum which was all he needed if he had only known about this wilderness survival technique to create fire.
How To Start A Fire with a Battery and Stick of Gum
In this episode of "Escape From Hell" Bear Grylls demonstrates how easy it is to use a battery and a stick of gum to start a fire in even the worst of conditions.. Bear uses the aluminum foil off a piece of gum to short the battery out and create a flame. Had Sabastian known this simple technique to start a fire fast, that very long night could have been accompanied with a heat source and a "Friend" keeping him company until the next day. If you have even been lost (mis-located) in the woods and forced to spend the night, you probably know exactly what I mean. Fire is truly a life saver under any survival situation and one you should always have several ways of making anytime you're in the Great Outdoors.
What if you don't have a stick of gum or for that matter a battery? If you at least have a battery you can use any metal object like a zipper off a jacket to short the battery out for instance. The best thing is always have in your survival pack several ways of starting a fire including that old faithful Bic lighter.
If you ever find yourself going way into the snowy forest without at least one method (preferably multiple ways) of starting a fire, the best advice is to turn around while you still can. Fire is the one thing you never what to survive a winter night (or any night) without.
What other methods of starting a fire using non conventional methods can you think of?
What other methods of starting a fire using non conventional methods can you think of?
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