All a bit over dramatic really. 14 days in Canada. Doesn’t really matter what knife you carry as long as you can use it effectively.
The only issue with failure is if it injures you as it breaks. It it did your knife skills were pretty poor to begin with.
A broken knife is going to be irksome but your not going to die. Need to get some perspective really.
I can’t think of a single task I have done in the NWT or Alaska that with a bit thought couldn’t have been a achieved a different way.
We like kit because we are gear snobs. Then tell ourselves they are life saving bits of kit when you’re on a risk assessed to death course with 10 other people dripping sharps and a bic lighter in every pocket. It’s playing at it.
None of the POWs and great survival stories of folk needing to do this for real had the luxury of a £250 knife.
What survivors have in common is a bad attitude and never give up.
The only issue with failure is if it injures you as it breaks. It it did your knife skills were pretty poor to begin with.
A broken knife is going to be irksome but your not going to die. Need to get some perspective really.
I can’t think of a single task I have done in the NWT or Alaska that with a bit thought couldn’t have been a achieved a different way.
We like kit because we are gear snobs. Then tell ourselves they are life saving bits of kit when you’re on a risk assessed to death course with 10 other people dripping sharps and a bic lighter in every pocket. It’s playing at it.
None of the POWs and great survival stories of folk needing to do this for real had the luxury of a £250 knife.
What survivors have in common is a bad attitude and never give up.