As someone who's been mushroom picking for more than 15 years now and harvesting various wild plants to eat, she is right, don't risk it. Even if you have a book. It's crazy the amount of people I've seen wrongly identify a plant and mistake it for something that, to me, look nothing alike, despite having all the resources to identify it properly. Even if it's not deadly it can make you really sick and you'll dehydrate super fast, it'll just make you situation worst.
I'm one of those people. I lived with the penan in the Borneo jungle. They used to pick plants and say. Good to eat, poisonous, good to eat. I literally put these plants together and holding them, could not tell the difference. They pointed to the hairs on the stem and how they were different. They also said you can tell because one grew in marshy ground and the other in dryer ground. I just realized I wasn't ever going to figure it out. I ate what they gave me and that was that. I think you need to grow up learning this stuff so you become attune to it. They just see the world differently. They'd leave messages with twigs stuck in the ground in the jungle. I'd not see it, to them it looked like a neon sign. Just incredible, Amazing people.
Yeah there was a terrible story here in the UK where a couple thought they had plenty of experience identifying edible mushrooms and put themselves and another couple in critical care. It was only because their children decided they didn't fancy it that they didn't get terribly poisoned as well 😬😬
Friends of mine, real mushroom picking experts, had to rush to the ER with mushroom poisoning years ago. Some of them suffered life long consequences, none died. Amanita phalloides, scarily common here in Italy, and very deadly.
As a Zoologist and someone who studies wolves I am so happy that she accurately describes them, she really knows her stuff! Awesome werewolf tattoo as well.
Can I just mention how good she is at giving feedback in a positive and constructive way? Like if most feedback in professional environments would be delivered this way so many people would perform better with more positive experiences as well.
@@xdLaserwolf You’re calling her judgy when the producers asked to come judge things, based on her expert experience. Some people see a woman confident in what she knows and does as pretentious, but hey to each their own I guess
Only thing I'm truly afraid of in the forest is the insects (specifically wasp and the type of ants that bite and they are everywhere). I think I would be moderately afraid if I encountered a bear, but I full on panic if a wasp gets close or one of these ants were to crawl on me or even being too numerous on the ground. I know its not rational priority but its how it is. Instinctive fear is stronger than rational fear.
Also, a lot of these experts say they have advised on tv shows or movies, so they're probably not too hard for a media organization to find/get in touch with.
I wonder whether that's a side effect of learning to survive in the wilderness: seeing things exactly for what they are, not for what you wish them to be, or think they should be. Maybe that carries over.
She doesn't only have the experience and the name now all she needs is an archaeological interest and we have an award winning game and movie franchise.
00:26 - The Revenant (2015) 01:54 - The office S4E11 (2007) 03:20 - The Grey (2011) 05:04 - Rambo: First Blood (1982) 06:48 - The Hunted (2003) 08:19 - The Edge (1997) 10:07 - The Mountain Between Us (2017) 11:46 - Into The Wild (2007) 13:23 - Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) 15:53 - The Way Back (2010)
I am a firefighter and those two people running in that big of a surface fire would not be able to run like that, the heat alone would be so intense and probably fry your lungs on the inside and let's not even talk about all the smoke they would be breathing in containing so much toxins.
I remember going to watch a fire training exercise when I was a kid, where the local fire department did a controlled burning of a small house. I believe we were like 30-40 meters away (though I'm guessing, as it was a long time ago), and I remember how extremely strong the heat was even before the house was in full flame. I feel like Hollywood generally forget how damn hot fire actually is.
Props to accurate wolf and bear info! I live in wolf and bear country. I’ve seen wolves once in the wild. Absolutely breathtaking. There were two of them tracking together. They had 0 interest in me and probably only stuck around as long as they did because there was a river between us, the furious geese squawking at them were much more distracting, and a small herd of elk (which I had also seen) had passed by earlier. No idea what the end outcome was, but it was a fantastic series of events that played like snapshots of life in the wild.
In December 2022, a 4-year-old boy got lost in Kenya's Tsavo national park and survived until rescue 6 days afterwards. Watching this video and imagining how hard it must be to survive in the wild, his story is mind-boggling 😯.
Laura is Iconic. She has like a 9.8 survival rating which is nuts and she did Naked and Afraid Alaska with THE Steven Lee Hall Junior. One could say Im a fan lol
@@zf5656 yeh, Naked & Afraid gives people a rating from 1-10 on their chance of surviving & if they complete the challenge (classic challenge is 21 days in the wilderness with nothing, not even clothes) then the rating goes up, if they fail & have to leave early to avoid death, then the rating goes down. Fans sometimes get to do a special 14 day challenge, they'll be given ratings of around 3-5, while experienced survivalists will start around 6-7. So an experienced person might start with 7, do a challenge & go up to 8, then do another challenge & fail & go down to 6. Laura is unusual in that I don't think she's ever failed. Even the best of them normally get injured somewhere along the line & get pulled out & have their rating drop, but for Laura they keep having to try to find harder challenges, cause she never fails. The last one I saw her in was when they put her into the arctic for 14 days, literally her & one other in knee deep snow & having to hike kms through that, with just a single bear skin each for warmth & I think they gave them a knife & fire starter too, but they somehow had to hike all day through that thick snow, with bare feet & legs, without freezing to death! They then had to try to make a shelter & find enough food to replace all the calories they were losing from shivering non-stop & again, they're doing it all naked! No shoes, nothing! They did have the advantage with that one of not having to make shelter before it got dark, since it was high enough in the arctic to not get dark, but they still had to get to the tundra & make a shelter & fire before they froze to death. The show's actually pretty cool for seeing what life would have been like for our assentors & seeing different challenges in different environments. Generally it's either cold, rain or bugs & thorns & burning feet can be a big one in hot areas too. You can watch any episode if you want to, no need to watch in order, except for the "XL" series, all are stand alone episodes & you'll get the idea from a single episode :)
It's very cute you people think that show is anything close to real. Didn't we learn a long time ago that reality TV is fake? Not to mention the massive amount of proof showing that the show is fake.
15:00 During the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria Australia 2009, someone took refuge in their water tank from the fire, after failing to defend their home. They ended up being boiled alive from the extreme heat of the fire boiling the water they were in
@Curiouser11 The flame isn't in direct contact with the water, and there is much more of it, so it would take longer to heat up. I think is what you were trying to say.
Yep, why isn't he cuddling up to that lovely warm glob of bloody intestines? Then again; _maybe_ he had to create some free space for him to get in and, well, close the door behind him to keep the cold out. So to say.
Forget that! why make an opening to climb in when there’s perfectly good existing holes that are like reverse birth! What’s that movie where they hide in an elephants vagina?😂
"The Grey" clip - It is true that wolves rarely, if ever, attack humans...but this was Liam Neeson. The pack leader knew he couldn't give up his chance to tangle with him.
From here we can imagine how hard is this for the actors to act like a real situation without any animal being there. Hats off to the actors who made us love movies and make our day.
She probably didn't know that was his last stand and he had no where to go. It was fight or die. Is the situation unrealistic? Yeah, but she doesn't know that those wolves fed off the corpses of the plane crash victims and develop a taste for man flesh. Also that the wolves were following the survivors and picking them off one by one. That's a problem I have with these videos is that the context and setup for these outlandish situations are usually omitted. Sounds like she thought Liam Neeson's character was just out for a stroll through the woods near his house and ran into a sigular blood thirsty wolf that just likes violence for the sake of it. Of course that situation sounds silly!
@@jessehinman8340 The entire setup is unrealistic and ridiculous. A taste for man flesh? What is this? The 1700s? Based on this alone she could have just dismissed the whole thing.
@@marcwittkowski5146 Maybe you over read the parts where I stated they were unrealistic and outlandish? Stop trying to pick fights with people over the internet . . . 🤣
Yeah...my son and I were talking about our husky's fur the other night and how resiliant is keeps him from damage. He is a "wooly" husky which has a much longer coat than what you usually see and finding his skin, even with scissors or clippers is practically impossible. you aren't cutting him with those bottles.
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One of my former teachers died after falling through the ice in my hometown getting ready for an event. I cannot imagine how anyone could survive something like that. My teacher was in a residential area, close to help and he still didn’t make it.
It all depends how fast you can get out of the water really. If you hit your head or go into shock it's bad news. I've fallen into icy water and it's not fun. I can definitely see how people die falling in but there are ways out of the water too.
Hypothermia is a protection against brain damage from lack of oxygen. So if you are taken out not to slowly and carefully reheated plenty of people survive. If you fall through and are able to get out yourself or with help of a friend but are not unconcious usually it's just a case of getting warmed up again.
Good video. From my experience, wool and leather tend to keep you warmer in rain than modern raincoats. I don't know why, but after a year or two of owning that plastic garbage, they let water in very fast. If I have underneath leather or wool, I'll get wet, but I won't freeze as fast as if it was any other material I know. A neighbor of mine had a few amputations due to frostbite and that was in the middle of a city! How did this happen? In the city park, a kid broke through the ice and was in the process of drowning. Since the water was too shallow for adults to drown, he stepped in and pulled him out. Back then, mobile phones were not a thing yet and he had to leave the park and knock on a lot of doors until one called the cops... No one let them in, nor gave them blankets, thus they had to wait in the cold and wind until the cops showed up and brought them to a hospital... I'm no expert, but from what I've seen nothing is more likely to kill you in the wild than water: freezing in the rain slipping and falling drowning, especially cold water or strong currents, but also situations where you can't get out floods, avalanches, landslides... branches falling due to snow stumbling through thick fog and I probably missed a few situations... Besides water, I think that eating the wrong food, or drinking the wrong water and starting puking is the quickest way to the netherworld... (except for very cold places, or deserts, obviously)
Never thought about that but certainly true, water in all its forms is so ever-present and can be super hostile in all its forms. You forgot falling icicles and dehydration.
@@jotcw81 I personally experience floods, a landslide, got surprised in the mountains by impenetrable fog, and once spotted snow in summer. The latter may not sound scary, but you have to realise that it was the product of an avalanche leaving such a huge pile that it lasted well into summer... moreover, when I inspected it, it was only 50cm or 2ft tall, but on the other side it was a wall well over 2m or 7ft and you were standing on ice of unknown thickness. The scariest part: it had a creek wide enough for a deer to fall in and I could only see darkness from its depths... it had certainly slippery walls and ice cold water down there and on top of the snow you might only see it in the last moment if you were running on the snow!
Liam Neeson was that guy who did get attacked though, the wolves have heard of his fame. They were jealous and wanted to take him down to their wild level.
A lot of the bad rep comes from people demonizing them because they are smart and opportunistic and so they will eat livestock if given the chance. Honestly, I can’t blame them. Especially with their habitat disappearing due to people.
@ djjaysky9071 bear attacks maybe, depending on who’s making the estimate. Wolves on the other hand have no record of killing people at least in the United States, and as far as I know have no recorded attacks.
@@emilyb1670 from what i remember she never really made a big deal about problems when other will be going thru mental break down. I think thats why i liked her she was really cool about everything and was willing to go thru it. strong lady
@@emilyb1670 I believe so. She’s so resourceful and smart. It’s awesome to watch her(and Jeff) in action. They did the 60 day challenge snd crushed it.
Thank you for stating facts about wolves. I live in "wolf country," and yet have never seen one in 30 years despite hiking in all sorts of remote mountainous land and forests. You would not *believe* the level of ignorance and hatred regarding wolves. OTOH, since you watched this clip from The Grays and maybe the entire movie, you probably would believe it.
Where do you live that's wolf country? I live close to Yellowstone and have seen 2 in 10 years. I would think you should have seen a few in 30 years. I was always told there's been 1 documented wolf fatality but we hear about a grizzly mauling every couple of years.
I'm a little skeptical but I guess it depends on where you are in the world maybe? A *pack* of wolves at night seems like a bad idea but they could be very scared of fire if you have that up and running. If not what would really stop them from attacking you? I'd be cautious regardless of animal out in the wild. Do you really want to be that person that actually becomes a bad statistical number? Especially when it comes to bigger animals like wolves, bears, lions, hyenas, hippos, buffalos, panthers, polar bears(very dangerous, I've heard that they're one of the few predators that actively hunt humans!) and so on(really boils down to where you live!).
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The thing with Rambo is that he's meant to be a guerilla warfare expert. His trap making time might be exaggerated but he doesn't need to "test" his traps he's made them during many high stress scenarios and it's basically second nature. Among the fact that he is meant to be a war machine, at this point in the timeline they've broken him down and rebuilt him as a "super soldier" combat is just constantly on his mind. He's always scouting the area, making mental notes of the types of people around him. As a fictional character, yeah I wouldn't put too much stock into what he did on screen as something an average person could do but I'd bet my left nut there are people capable of feats similar to this, given the right circumstances.
@@thenewfire given enough experience and knowledge you could definitely set up a trap that's very likely to get someone. My aunt's stepfather was a Vietnam veteran who specialized in guerrilla warfare, i.e. setting up traps like rambo did just then, and he told me that 90% of setting up a trap is either finding where to put it to guarantee someone walks in, or adjusting the terrain/situation to guide people into the trap
Laura is actually the type of expert you would get to make & set those traps in real life. She does it all the time on Naked & Afraid. She's looking at it from the perspective of making all the trap parts from wilderness scavenged items & saying it's not possible & she is the one that knows if it is or not
The wolves in the Grey were more like metaphorical demons than actual wolves, and they were that way by design. They were just there to show the guys journey from giving up on life, to fighting tooth and nail for it.
Either way, it shows wolves being bloodthirsty killers. Which only sways those who are impartial about them to think wolves are actually like that, and makes those who are against wolves even more set in their ways and beliefs
Great episode, Laura was awesome. There is absolutely NO way you're heating metal/steel over an open fire like that. It's just not gonna work, especially if it's wood fired. Wood fires can get a little hotter than a thousand degrees if you have the right types of hardwood (Pecan, or Oak), so it's never going to melt metal.
Not correct. 1500 degrees is about where the "melting point" is for metal, though the name "melting" in that scale means when it starts to "turn into a liquid". It is mallable way before that. Most regular steel loses like 80-90% of its integrity at temperatures at 800 degrees and thereabout (depending on the alloy). It'll require a lot of muscle and pounding, but it can and has been done. Its not ideal, because it risks breaking/shattering the alloy and what you would need under such circumstances is a tray of pre-heated water (not too cold, cause it'll risk warping the steel).
@Celor Fiwyn sorry but, this is wrong. 1500F is towards the low end of the forging temperature of spring steel (5160) which is what was depicted in the movie, while 800F is the the temperature you would use to temper the steel. Forge Welding is done at even higher temperatures (around 2200F) none of which is near the melting temperature. Can you forge steel in a wood fire? Depending on the composition of the Steel, yes. But it requires appropriate wood, appropriately built fire, and a blower to keep the fire going at higher temperatures. Iron, on the other hand, would be far easier to work with in a wood fire (depending on thickness) but would still take a great deal of time.
Probably one of the best films I've seen about survival in the woods is John Sayles' film "Limbo." They're worried about having enough food, wet clothing, lack of medicine. Nothing dramatic.
As a wildlife biologist and rattlesnake wrangler, I love how she debunks the mythology of the dangerous & aggressive megafauna. Animals really don't like fighting unless they absolutely must, and they have a particularly keen interest in avoiding humans too. In my animal/wilderness info & safety presentations, I almost always reference how infrequently wolves, snakes, and bears attack compared to animals like dogs and deer
I will never forget when my sister and her then boyfriend came back from mushroom picking with baskets full of mushrooms. They had the good sense to put the different types into separate baskets. Three baskets clearly had edibable mushrooms in them, easily identifiable. But two types were much harder. The illustrations and the descriptions in our mushroom guide book did not clarify the issue to an extent that you could have eaten any of them with confidence. We had lively debates whether they were of the edibable or non-edibable (or even poisonous) variety. Some that might or might not be edidable looked quite similar. In the end we tossed the ones that we were not 100% certain about. No point in risking it.
You could make the case that because Rambo served in Vietnam and fought an effective guerilla-style war against the Vietnamese, who were very skilled at building devious, effective, and cruel wooden traps. So, while I always wondered the same thing, how did Rambo get the trap to swing with that much force, it is conceivable that this is something he picked up in Vietnam. Also, when he surprises the Sheriff, after taking out his deputies, if you look at the film carefully, you can actually see Rambo crouching under the tree; his back up, and until he springs it's really difficult to make him out. So the camo of leaves definitely worked. It's late and dark in the forest so conceivably you wouldn't need much camo if any, because, in reality, that forest would've been practically pitch black. If you follow the scene, Rambo clearly has a game plan in the way he behaves, so perhaps he simply did not think he needed more.
The Office clip would get a 10 out of 10 from me if they included the scene in which Dwight says "Watch out for snakes!". Gotta love a fellow MSTIE. His face when Michael goes to eat the mushrooms is hysterical.
fun fact, frigid cold water can actually knock people out the way it did to the lady in the one scene. people have a natural gasp, or a natural moment of shock when they hit cold water, and it can put people into a state of panic, causing them to fall unconscious. moral of this lesson tho, don’t walk on frozen lakes, ponds, any kind of frozen water. it’s a bad idea
15:00 The other thing about pools of water in a wild fire is that if the water body is not large enough the water can actually heat up and eventually burn you. In the case of swimming pools they get hot enough to boil you alive.
It's always interesting to see how a professional will rate someone that actually did it in real life. Sometimes it's the little mistakes that actually show the realism.
Toward the end, speaking of wet wool... wool weighs a ton when it's wet. It may still retain heat but... it's heavy. That's always one point about people falling into water in movies that drives me crazy-- they usually sink like a stone because all their clothes weigh so much when they're wet (another reason Kate Winslet never would have floated... not until after she died). Little known fact: Bell-bottom jeans were styled after the navy uniform, which was specifically designed with the wide bottoms so if a sailor fell into the water, he could take his pants off over his shoes. They didn't want to lose their shoes. But the fabric was so heavy they wouldn't survive. If a sailor can't survive I doubt an average person could.
@@whocaresguy no you won't. Do you have the foggiest idea how anything related to science works? Archimedes understood buoyancy 23 centuries ago. 'Scale' a sponge?
@@whocaresguy are you for real? What is the relative density of wool and water, or sponge and water? Wool has a density of 1.3 g/cm3. Sponge has a density of .25 g/cm3. A wet sponge floats. Wet wool sinks, barely. If there are any air bubbles at all in The wool, like felt, it floats.
That spring loaded trap is entirely possible while manipulating the bendable features of green wood. If you use the right wood for the base and the right wood for the other portions to leverage the torque to avoid all the pressure on just one branch it would work. Also adding reinforcement to the structure would also help. The pants worn by the antagonists also comes into play, they aren’t durable in the least and these men are depicted as individuals who clearly don’t work out often so they may be identified with soft muscle tissue. Only argument i would see on the effectiveness of that trap is how deep the wooden spikes can go into the legs. Most often times in Vietnam they used wooden or bamboo spikes on logs or drop traps, in those cases the vietnamese would place human feces on the spikes to cause infection and sepsis
She didn't say it wasn't possible, but expecting to be able to make one in haste while on the run and having it have to work first time in a place you have zero guarantee your persuer will even go makes it a very unreliable choice to spend your time on, by the time he made that he could have been a few miles away
Rambo's leaf camo was a technique he learned from fighting the Vietcong and NVA. They had harnesses where you could strap leaves and foliage to your back easily and hide better while lying down on your stomach, or could be strapped to your chest. Cheap, light weight and great for waiting to conduct an ambush (as we see Rambo do in the film).
The fire analysis is spot on… it’s been my career for 15+ years and I always get annoyed with the lack of smoke in all of the Hollywood fires. I get it tho, wouldn’t be very entertaining with limited visibility. Great series!
To my knowledge the fainting goats don't go unconscious, they're not actually fainting like a human. Instead, all their muscles seize up (myotonia) so they're unable to keep themselves upright, usually because they were in the process of running away. If you use a muscle, for example to try and run away when startled, there are mechanisms that physically cause the muscle to relax again. In fainting goats and other animals that have that genetic mutation, there's a failure of the initial contraction to terminate. So once tensed, the muscle doesn't relax again. It's kind of like a button getting stuck; after pushing the button, once you stop pushing on it, it should come back up again so you can push it again. But in this case, the button doesn't come back up.
Yeah we have a huge problem still in the current day of killing off wolves in North America , depicting them as man eaters on top of ranchers justifying killing everyone they see really makes it hard to get the public behind protecting that species
It is documented that wolves in human areas have evolved to fear humans and will go out of their way to avoid us. Interestingly wolves in areas that have no human population have been observed to have no fear of humans but also don’t see us as prey or a threat, if anything they’re curious. That does not mean press your luck and forget you’re dealing with an apex predator- it just means that wolves aren’t the threat we paint them out to be.
Not sure I see eye to eye on that scene from The Edge. The whole point of that film is that they are completely out of their element, so naturally, they're doing wrong things. Feels plenty realistic to me, given that Laura points out that the bear could potentially attack three men around a fire.
@@Sean_thompson_bass Blame Insider for only showing them the scene then, though it's unrealistic to expect her to watch every movie they want a scene criticised in.
@@Sean_thompson_bass they're just shown the clips of these movies, they dont watch the entire movie to break down a single scene so its not their fault they dont know the entire context of the scene, they just do what theyre told to, which is analyze and critique survival scenes based off of how realistic they are.
Those scenes from First Blood seemed to be much darker on the VHS versions and somehow more in line with the mentioned weathe conditions too. His camo would have easily worked with that.oh and btw, steel/iron starts melting or burning at 1500 C° already, you can technically forge it even cold ,depending on its brittleness and elasticity ratio, but it gets easier with increasing temperatures, so this wood fire would probably work in some way, but it seems to me that he would need to have a way to blow air into the fire to heat it up enough to get that color on his iron bar.
you can forge cold steel with sheer force yes. but it will become brittle and eventually break on the edges. And it needs A LOT OF FORCE. The iron rod he is working in the clip is like 1.25x2.5 inches and he does neither have an actual hammer nor an anvil. He bashes the rod with another rod and uses the rocky terrain as an anvil. looks like lime stone to me. lots of gravel around. the stone is probably rather brittle. i dont think that this scene would work in real life with this set-up. Controlled fire ventilation is one thing you already mentioned to be important. But a proper hammer and anvil are just as important i think.
@@rumpelpumpel7687 Trenton Tye does it in one video - forges a knife on a rock - and if I remember correctly, he doesn't even have a proper hammer. He did that video to prove, that we don't have to have fancy equipment. He has a blower and real coal tho. I tried to forge once with coal that wasn't completely dry - dad dug it out of a construction site - the former land owner buried it there (some WW2 missiles were also buried not so far away LOL), and it completely sucked. It took me like half an hour to bend a goddamn rebar into meat hook. 😅 The coal took forever to ignite, even with fluid, and then cooled down super fast.
@@ericbrass3434 yes it's probably not impossible to forge a knife on a rock. I've come across a video where a dude actually casts knife blades from liquid iron that is barely above the melting point. It works, but the quality ... well - in my opinion it could be easier to create some cutting edge tool from stone or glass or a sheet metal in a survival situation. I agree, that you can do basic forging without having a blacksmith shop around and without proper tools, but it will probably cost much more time and enegy to forge and form something this way, and it will probably be of lesser quality. AND dangers of hurting yourself might also increase drastically when you work with random substitutions instead of trustworthy tools.
Taking your clothes off when wet: Not a survivalist, but I love outdoor sports and so of course I’ve gotten soaked in the dead of winter. Even in NYC or easily in Los Angeles you can find yourself totally isolated with no open stores or other shelter nearby. Basically, if I can at least wring out most of the water, I’ll do that piece by piece, starting with my socks because it’s usually the lower part of the body that gets the wettest, and I’m not exposing my core. I can also use the wrung out socks like a towel to soak up water from other parts of my body, wring them out again, and repeat. I carry spare socks and gloves when heading out in Winter, even for cycling. --- It seems the greatest myth spread by film and television is, all wild animal are in a state of constant, very alert and energetic rage, and will attack absolutely anything, especially a human-because humans are a-holes who also happen to be delicious because they are so over fed with stuff that is scarce in the wild like delicious fats, battered and deep fried in more fats, topped with fatty sauces and cheese. Humans, yum! And there are so many of them; surely they won’t miss a few! --- It took years of intense actor training and experience playing cold when she’s hot and hot when she’s cold for Kate Winslett to learn how to faint beautifully on queue. Could you survive a gauntlet of hair, makeup, and wardrobe and a full SIX HOURS before a hot buffet all you can eat meal?! Some days we have no time for even a cappuccino from craft services between takes! Can you imagine…. I guess you could survive that. Please, go on. --- I think the myth that you can run across breaking ice comes from the fact that snowmobiles do it. But a snowmobile going fast enough can cross even plain liquid water like a waterski over a short distance.
Things to always keep in your car for survival: Tarps, tent, medical bag, water, blankets, flares, lighters, boots, socks, warm jacket, poncho, gloves, wool hat, duct tape, knife, axe, hammer, nails, hand saw, tinder. I typically keep all of those things in the trunk of my car at all times.
Thanks for highlighting the wildlife myths. I've been trained by wildlife biologists in bear safety and I was surprised by how much I didn't know. For example, that there are times you should make yourself big and loud, times you should not, etc. Always remember, yall: bears do not want to hunt and kill you, but their main priority is food. If they don't eat enough, they die in winter. So you can't give them anything that would make them curious about you ("i'm gonna walk up to this human because they migbt have food"). NEVER drop your bag as a distraction for a bear. NEVER run. Always do the opposite of the bear: If the bear is defensive and trying to get you to go away(stomping, flattened ears, basically pissed off) be calm and de-escalate and talk softly and back away slowly. If the bear is curious and approaching you to figure you out(on hind legs to look at you, sneaking toward you, walking slowly), be loud and big. Do not back away or yield to it. Stand your ground. Teach it to stay away from people. And always carry bear spray (for brown bears) and KNOW HOW TO USE IT if the bear gets too close. It can save your life and save the bear's (and the bear will learn to avoid people).
The guy who brought the duck tape on Naked & Afraid was USMC buddy Josh. Yeah we gave him a hard time about that one. But under the circumstances, it was smart.
While the traps in Rambo were just from a movie they actually weren’t incorrect for the timeframe and the person who was supposed to be making them. Soldiers in Vietnam experienced a lot traps not so different and especially green berets which is what he was in the movie did extensively train with not just detecting traps like that but how to make them and even into modern day they still do some training in that type of thing even having field manuals showing how to make them but the last 2 decades that sort of training has been less important with combat theater’s going almost exclusively into the desert or urban terrains
Slight correction on the running from wolves....it would not do nothing. It would just mean you die tired. About breathing in super hot air, that would likely cause a burn which if survived could cause your lungs to seep moisture and cause difficulty breathing and possible suffocation. I've not seen this as a fire reaction, but I did see this happen with a chemical reaction when someone breathed in petrol/gasoline while siphoning from a tank. They did not get a lot into their lungs, but we had to use an ambu bag to assist with their breathing and the positive pressure will push fluid back out of the lungs and into the bloodstream. I was driving the ambulance in that instance so I only really know what I heard happening in the back.
This person is pretty right on, 3 decades of bush biologist experience take it for what it's worth. Just goes to show, age, hers, isn't the only key to wisdom. Except for the knife thing, big enough to baton fuel wood ( trust me), you can still dissect a beast with a big knife, KA Bar Becker is purfect!
I actually survived a forest fire by wading out into the middle of a pond when I was a boy. I was lucky that I was not having any issues with smoke and able to breath okay the whole time. I just waited it out until it was safe to come out.
Regarding the Into the Wild clip, I have seen a compelling argument that he didn't necessarily misidentify the plant, but that it was a plant that was toxic only in really high amounts, to an already-compromised person, which he was. It had been known about in folk medicine for years and years, and was even used in experiments by the Nazis.
The Edge is a very underrated movie.I think why the characters made most of the mistakes they made was because they were panicking.When you panic you don't think clearly.
I love "The Edge". Great (and severely underrated) flick. BUT... I'm not watching it as a how-to guide on survival in the Alaskan wilderness or a how-to on bear hunting. Great (make-believe) action/drama, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin's a-hole character dies in the end.
love how the wolves patiently wait for Liam Neeson to gear up instead taking the opportunity when he looks down to chop into his neck. I LOVE villain logic the most when it's applied to wild animals LMAO
Wildfires are terrifying to me, i'm so glad i live in the NE where they are not a thing. When the woods burn around here it's caused by people 99% of the time
Pretty good video. I learned a few things I hadn't thought about. I would have given "The Grey" a higher score, though. She's correct about electrical tape being brittle, especially cold, but it's better than braiding or laying some grass, real quick, to tie things on. And he definitely didn't want to drop his sharp weapons, because the wolves weren't going to lose theirs.
nah. those bottles would have very easily caused him more harm than the wolves. would have been much smarter to break the biggest bottle and just hold it as a stabbing mechanism like he did the knife. more control that way.
The Into The Wild clip is absolutely real. It’s a biopic of Christopher McCandless, a young suburban kid who out of the blue decided to renounce all his possessions and hitchhike across the US to live in the wilds of Alaska. He had this overly romantic notion about living free off the land, away from civilization. Unfortunately he was a city kid with precisely zero outdoor experience.
Actually he had a lot of experience for his age - problem is that survival is very hard. Nature does not forgive mistakes - he made a mistake and nature killed him. One mistake - all it takes.
@@tomk3732 no he wasn’t. He was, at best, an enthusiastic amateur. Sure, Wikipedia describes him as an “avid outdoorsman” who went on lengthy hikes. But that could mean anything. If I climb a few hills in my local area, that may earn me the description of an avid mountaineer, doesn’t mean I’m ready to climb Mt Everest. And there is a pretty big difference between going on a nature hike and living off the land in the Alaskan wilderness. Also, and you would do well to understand this, accidents are never the result of “one mistake”, they are the result of a series of lapses, errors and bad calls that culminate in an event. McCandless went into Alaska with no map, no experience in that part of world, limited gear and supplies and no plan. Most of what he knew about survival he’d gleaned from books. He ignored the advice of locals and went off on his own with no means of calling for help if things went south. So no, it wasn’t “one mistake”
@@CharlieNoodles He was 24 at time of death. He had lived, traveled and hiked for about 2 years before going to Alaska where he survived for almost 2 months off the land before he decided to head back. 2 months off the land, with 10lbs of rice surviving by hunting is not something most people would find easy. I would not call this lengthy hikes - as these for most people mean a day hike, he went on for multi month trips where he managed to sustain himself. Backpacking with limited gear, no food supply for months at a time is sheer definition of survival experience. It sure takes one mistake. One. Maybe you need to go outdoors more. I have climbed many mountains over 6000m solo, including Denali, and trust me, all it takes is one mistake. I was present in few situations where people either died or were severely injured due to single mistake. Remember he was just 24, for someone this young he accumulated quite a lot - how many 24 year old people do you think would survive this long? There were some murderers escaping Canadian authorities just touch younger then him, amateurs, and what, they made it like 3 days in the wilderness before taking their own lives.
@@tomk3732 believe what you want. I’ve worked for over 20 years in an industry with a strong safety culture. Accidents are NEVER the result of a single mistake and neither was Christophers death.
@@CharlieNoodles I think you are thinking of contributing factors. For example, rock climber failed to clip in on rappel and fell to his death. His fatal mistake for me would be not checking his/her system. You may add the fact he or she were tired after climbing & not having anyone to take a look at them. Not exactly sure how you defined acts of God - fatal mistake was being out there? I.e. You are climbing, rock dislodges above you and hits you on the head - bam you are dead / avalanche releases and you get killed despite taking all precautions.
The fact that Michael Scott has a better survival rating than Liam Neeson made my day
"I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." -Liam Neeson --Michael Scott
As someone who's been mushroom picking for more than 15 years now and harvesting various wild plants to eat, she is right, don't risk it. Even if you have a book. It's crazy the amount of people I've seen wrongly identify a plant and mistake it for something that, to me, look nothing alike, despite having all the resources to identify it properly. Even if it's not deadly it can make you really sick and you'll dehydrate super fast, it'll just make you situation worst.
My mom was certified here in Missouri. Knows whats ok and whats not. And I know enough to still not chance it.
I'm one of those people. I lived with the penan in the Borneo jungle. They used to pick plants and say. Good to eat, poisonous, good to eat. I literally put these plants together and holding them, could not tell the difference. They pointed to the hairs on the stem and how they were different. They also said you can tell because one grew in marshy ground and the other in dryer ground. I just realized I wasn't ever going to figure it out. I ate what they gave me and that was that. I think you need to grow up learning this stuff so you become attune to it. They just see the world differently. They'd leave messages with twigs stuck in the ground in the jungle. I'd not see it, to them it looked like a neon sign. Just incredible, Amazing people.
Or you could trip, have a great experience, and summon the willpower to escape.
Yeah there was a terrible story here in the UK where a couple thought they had plenty of experience identifying edible mushrooms and put themselves and another couple in critical care. It was only because their children decided they didn't fancy it that they didn't get terribly poisoned as well 😬😬
Friends of mine, real mushroom picking experts, had to rush to the ER with mushroom poisoning years ago. Some of them suffered life long consequences, none died. Amanita phalloides, scarily common here in Italy, and very deadly.
Props to the producers and editors who included The Office survival scene lmao
They did it for the culture.
Love it so much!
Did you know it's a nod to Survivorman? (Les Stroud) He's got a blank ton of excellent content on here.
gen z only knows "The Office"
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Literally every one of these channels have done it
@@derekhettinger451 Only if you have an impulse to "other" someone, anyone.
As a Zoologist and someone who studies wolves I am so happy that she accurately describes them, she really knows her stuff! Awesome werewolf tattoo as well.
Can I just mention how good she is at giving feedback in a positive and constructive way? Like if most feedback in professional environments would be delivered this way so many people would perform better with more positive experiences as well.
so damn true!
Absolutely agree. Was just about to say this.
No she’s not, she’s super judgy and pretentious
@@xdLaserwolf Huh. Can you give an example? Didn't seem like it to me.
@@xdLaserwolf You’re calling her judgy when the producers asked to come judge things, based on her expert experience. Some people see a woman confident in what she knows and does as pretentious, but hey to each their own I guess
Learnings from Naked and afraid: It's not the predators that get you, it's the bugs.
Totally agree, just a small swarm of insects that flies constantly around people can drive their mental state to crazy and exhausted
oh god the mosquitos always look miserable
Right? Lions, tigers, and bears…..whatever. Mosquitoes, flies, and other pesky critters….. NOPE!
Only thing I'm truly afraid of in the forest is the insects (specifically wasp and the type of ants that bite and they are everywhere). I think I would be moderately afraid if I encountered a bear, but I full on panic if a wasp gets close or one of these ants were to crawl on me or even being too numerous on the ground. I know its not rational priority but its how it is. Instinctive fear is stronger than rational fear.
American accents and intonation is annoying. Everything is not a question.
It amazes me how many specialists Insider knows about
And movies
their name pretty plainly makes it clear that it's their business to know these people
same goes for GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired..
Also, a lot of these experts say they have advised on tv shows or movies, so they're probably not too hard for a media organization to find/get in touch with.
@@MAN_FROM_BEYOND 🎟
She’s good. And one of the first to use the full breath of the scale. Not afraid to throw a 1 out there
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Paladium lol beat me to it, I know it’s annoying to correct but the compulsion is too strong for me to resist
Thanks guys. I think My brain has always glanced over the proper word and it never registered
I wonder whether that's a side effect of learning to survive in the wilderness: seeing things exactly for what they are, not for what you wish them to be, or think they should be. Maybe that carries over.
@@scottklandl488 most wholesome correction exchange ever
She doesn't only have the experience and the name now all she needs is an archaeological interest and we have an award winning game and movie franchise.
lara croft?
@@White_Night_Demon no, Meet the Kardashians duh
@@White_Night_Demon Indiana Jones!
00:26 - The Revenant (2015)
01:54 - The office S4E11 (2007)
03:20 - The Grey (2011)
05:04 - Rambo: First Blood (1982)
06:48 - The Hunted (2003)
08:19 - The Edge (1997)
10:07 - The Mountain Between Us (2017)
11:46 - Into The Wild (2007)
13:23 - Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
15:53 - The Way Back (2010)
Is that Kate Winslet? I think that's funny she didn't find a door to float on.
Absolute greatest line ever... HILARIOUS.
This is not Kate Winslet
@@evepick totally missed what he said. He is quoting this survival lady.
@@evepick I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or if you missed it.
It was still great no matter who missed it 😆 Laura Zerra roasted so many movies it can be hard to keep up
Lol it can’t be, we know from the water survivor video that she was too mobile in the water, this one passed out IMMEDIATELY
I am a firefighter and those two people running in that big of a surface fire would not be able to run like that, the heat alone would be so intense and probably fry your lungs on the inside and let's not even talk about all the smoke they would be breathing in containing so much toxins.
Exactly.. i think she needs to study more the stages of a fire, and temperatures reaching.🤦🏻
So, just belly on the ground and crawl away with a wet cloth towel over your mouth?
@@mariussavinescu1060 she did point out that she had issue with the fire
like many of my WLFF homeys who aren't around anymore...you don't quit.
I remember going to watch a fire training exercise when I was a kid, where the local fire department did a controlled burning of a small house. I believe we were like 30-40 meters away (though I'm guessing, as it was a long time ago), and I remember how extremely strong the heat was even before the house was in full flame. I feel like Hollywood generally forget how damn hot fire actually is.
Props to accurate wolf and bear info! I live in wolf and bear country. I’ve seen wolves once in the wild. Absolutely breathtaking. There were two of them tracking together. They had 0 interest in me and probably only stuck around as long as they did because there was a river between us, the furious geese squawking at them were much more distracting, and a small herd of elk (which I had also seen) had passed by earlier. No idea what the end outcome was, but it was a fantastic series of events that played like snapshots of life in the wild.
In December 2022, a 4-year-old boy got lost in Kenya's Tsavo national park and survived until rescue 6 days afterwards. Watching this video and imagining how hard it must be to survive in the wild, his story is mind-boggling 😯.
Laura is Iconic. She has like a 9.8 survival rating which is nuts and she did Naked and Afraid Alaska with THE Steven Lee Hall Junior. One could say Im a fan lol
What's a survival rating?
@@nahadoth2087 But that suggests that she died some of the times?
@@thenewfire I'm guessing it was a score used on Naked and Afraid?
@@zf5656 yeh, Naked & Afraid gives people a rating from 1-10 on their chance of surviving & if they complete the challenge (classic challenge is 21 days in the wilderness with nothing, not even clothes) then the rating goes up, if they fail & have to leave early to avoid death, then the rating goes down.
Fans sometimes get to do a special 14 day challenge, they'll be given ratings of around 3-5, while experienced survivalists will start around 6-7.
So an experienced person might start with 7, do a challenge & go up to 8, then do another challenge & fail & go down to 6. Laura is unusual in that I don't think she's ever failed. Even the best of them normally get injured somewhere along the line & get pulled out & have their rating drop, but for Laura they keep having to try to find harder challenges, cause she never fails.
The last one I saw her in was when they put her into the arctic for 14 days, literally her & one other in knee deep snow & having to hike kms through that, with just a single bear skin each for warmth & I think they gave them a knife & fire starter too, but they somehow had to hike all day through that thick snow, with bare feet & legs, without freezing to death! They then had to try to make a shelter & find enough food to replace all the calories they were losing from shivering non-stop & again, they're doing it all naked! No shoes, nothing! They did have the advantage with that one of not having to make shelter before it got dark, since it was high enough in the arctic to not get dark, but they still had to get to the tundra & make a shelter & fire before they froze to death.
The show's actually pretty cool for seeing what life would have been like for our assentors & seeing different challenges in different environments. Generally it's either cold, rain or bugs & thorns & burning feet can be a big one in hot areas too.
You can watch any episode if you want to, no need to watch in order, except for the "XL" series, all are stand alone episodes & you'll get the idea from a single episode :)
It's very cute you people think that show is anything close to real. Didn't we learn a long time ago that reality TV is fake? Not to mention the massive amount of proof showing that the show is fake.
15:00 During the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria Australia 2009, someone took refuge in their water tank from the fire, after failing to defend their home. They ended up being boiled alive from the extreme heat of the fire boiling the water they were in
@Curiouser11 The flame isn't in direct contact with the water, and there is much more of it, so it would take longer to heat up. I think is what you were trying to say.
Eww
Lol nice story
Jesus... that’s horrible
There is also the story of 5 guys sheltering in a concrete water tank to survive a fire storm. A metal water tank would heat up.
I like how she doesn't try to sugar coat everything, when something has problems she says it blatantly. And she's not afraid to throw a 1/10 😂
That's how experienced survivalist are by nature. You can't play games.
Yeah, while being a 10/10. 😍
"The guts are really where the heat's at." Love her 😄
Yep, why isn't he cuddling up to that lovely warm glob of bloody intestines?
Then again; _maybe_ he had to create some free space for him to get in and, well, close the door behind him to keep the cold out. So to say.
The Empire strikes back got it right when Luke was shoved in the guts of a Tauntaun.
Get in them guts!
Forget that! why make an opening to climb in when there’s perfectly good existing holes that are like reverse birth! What’s that movie where they hide in an elephants vagina?😂
"The Grey" clip - It is true that wolves rarely, if ever, attack humans...but this was Liam Neeson. The pack leader knew he couldn't give up his chance to tangle with him.
Lol
I saw what you did there, lmao.
😂😂😂
Really appreciate the tips she gave along with the criticisms. Would love to see and learn more.
You should watch her Naked and Afraid episodes
From here we can imagine how hard is this for the actors to act like a real situation without any animal being there.
Hats off to the actors who made us love movies and make our day.
they got skills!! that's why they get paid skills much lol
@@BickyToya but it's also a blessing to be skilled,
The real animals are the friends we made along the way!
@@Iksvomid and real friends behaves like animals.
Thank god they get millions of dollars and fame and power to pretend.. so we can be entertained......
10:20 "she didn't find a door this time to float on" that had me 🤣🤣
The fact that the office got a higher score them they Grey 😆
They had Les Stroud advising for that episode
I think you mean "than the"
She probably didn't know that was his last stand and he had no where to go. It was fight or die. Is the situation unrealistic? Yeah, but she doesn't know that those wolves fed off the corpses of the plane crash victims and develop a taste for man flesh. Also that the wolves were following the survivors and picking them off one by one. That's a problem I have with these videos is that the context and setup for these outlandish situations are usually omitted. Sounds like she thought Liam Neeson's character was just out for a stroll through the woods near his house and ran into a sigular blood thirsty wolf that just likes violence for the sake of it. Of course that situation sounds silly!
@@jessehinman8340 The entire setup is unrealistic and ridiculous. A taste for man flesh? What is this? The 1700s? Based on this alone she could have just dismissed the whole thing.
@@marcwittkowski5146 Maybe you over read the parts where I stated they were unrealistic and outlandish? Stop trying to pick fights with people over the internet . . . 🤣
Laura: Doesn't like myth of wolves being man eaters and it perpetuated
Also Laura: Literally has a tattoo of a wolf chomping a woman in half
difference between reality and metaphor ('cause it looks like a werewolf...)
Well, to be fair. It's the depiction of a werewolf (after a renaissance/baroque printing).
@@tubekulose Isn't that the beast of gévaudan?
@@vacsad True!
The woman in the tattoo perpetuated wolves preying on humans...
Yeah...my son and I were talking about our husky's fur the other night and how resiliant is keeps him from damage. He is a "wooly" husky which has a much longer coat than what you usually see and finding his skin, even with scissors or clippers is practically impossible. you aren't cutting him with those bottles.
Nice real life experience, thanks for sharing :)
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One of my former teachers died after falling through the ice in my hometown getting ready for an event. I cannot imagine how anyone could survive something like that. My teacher was in a residential area, close to help and he still didn’t make it.
It all depends how fast you can get out of the water really. If you hit your head or go into shock it's bad news. I've fallen into icy water and it's not fun. I can definitely see how people die falling in but there are ways out of the water too.
Hypothermia is a protection against brain damage from lack of oxygen. So if you are taken out not to slowly and carefully reheated plenty of people survive. If you fall through and are able to get out yourself or with help of a friend but are not unconcious usually it's just a case of getting warmed up again.
Good video. From my experience, wool and leather tend to keep you warmer in rain than modern raincoats. I don't know why, but after a year or two of owning that plastic garbage, they let water in very fast. If I have underneath leather or wool, I'll get wet, but I won't freeze as fast as if it was any other material I know.
A neighbor of mine had a few amputations due to frostbite and that was in the middle of a city!
How did this happen?
In the city park, a kid broke through the ice and was in the process of drowning. Since the water was too shallow for adults to drown, he stepped in and pulled him out. Back then, mobile phones were not a thing yet and he had to leave the park and knock on a lot of doors until one called the cops... No one let them in, nor gave them blankets, thus they had to wait in the cold and wind until the cops showed up and brought them to a hospital...
I'm no expert, but from what I've seen nothing is more likely to kill you in the wild than water:
freezing in the rain
slipping and falling
drowning, especially cold water or strong currents, but also situations where you can't get out
floods, avalanches, landslides...
branches falling due to snow
stumbling through thick fog
and I probably missed a few situations...
Besides water, I think that eating the wrong food, or drinking the wrong water and starting puking is the quickest way to the netherworld... (except for very cold places, or deserts, obviously)
Never thought about that but certainly true, water in all its forms is so ever-present and can be super hostile in all its forms.
You forgot falling icicles and dehydration.
@@jotcw81 I personally experience floods, a landslide, got surprised in the mountains by impenetrable fog, and once spotted snow in summer. The latter may not sound scary, but you have to realise that it was the product of an avalanche leaving such a huge pile that it lasted well into summer... moreover, when I inspected it, it was only 50cm or 2ft tall, but on the other side it was a wall well over 2m or 7ft and you were standing on ice of unknown thickness. The scariest part: it had a creek wide enough for a deer to fall in and I could only see darkness from its depths... it had certainly slippery walls and ice cold water down there and on top of the snow you might only see it in the last moment if you were running on the snow!
I like how she busted the wolf trope. I read a huge article on wolves, they really do keep to themselves, yet they are used in negative connotations.
wolf attack and bear attacks are a lot more common than people think
Liam Neeson was that guy who did get attacked though, the wolves have heard of his fame. They were jealous and wanted to take him down to their wild level.
A lot of the bad rep comes from people demonizing them because they are smart and opportunistic and so they will eat livestock if given the chance. Honestly, I can’t blame them. Especially with their habitat disappearing due to people.
She busted nothing. Try to google sometime. Look for historic wolf attacks in France, Russia and India for starters. She has zero clue.
@ djjaysky9071 bear attacks maybe, depending on who’s making the estimate. Wolves on the other hand have no record of killing people at least in the United States, and as far as I know have no recorded attacks.
I absolutely love how it goes from the harsh horse guts scene to Michael Scott
I love how she says such nice things and then just give it a 1/10
I really wanted her to react to Peeta's camouflage in The Hunger Games 😂
I love her on Naked & Afraid. She’s amazing!
Me too!
Does she make it to the end each time?
@@emilyb1670 from what i remember she never really made a big deal about problems when other will be going thru mental break down. I think thats why i liked her she was really cool about everything and was willing to go thru it. strong lady
@@emilyb1670 I believe so. She’s so resourceful and smart. It’s awesome to watch her(and Jeff) in action. They did the 60 day challenge snd crushed it.
Definitely a badass babe.
Outstanding ...I studied Wolves in the wild for many years and had many encounters with them. Her comments about Wolves are spot on ...good job.
Thank you for stating facts about wolves. I live in "wolf country," and yet have never seen one in 30 years despite hiking in all sorts of remote mountainous land and forests. You would not *believe* the level of ignorance and hatred regarding wolves. OTOH, since you watched this clip from The Grays and maybe the entire movie, you probably would believe it.
She said she sees one ever time she's out in the woods? I find that hard to believe
lol wolf country,.... hahahaha
Yeah, but they see you...all the time
Where do you live that's wolf country? I live close to Yellowstone and have seen 2 in 10 years. I would think you should have seen a few in 30 years. I was always told there's been 1 documented wolf fatality but we hear about a grizzly mauling every couple of years.
I'm a little skeptical but I guess it depends on where you are in the world maybe? A *pack* of wolves at night seems like a bad idea but they could be very scared of fire if you have that up and running. If not what would really stop them from attacking you? I'd be cautious regardless of animal out in the wild. Do you really want to be that person that actually becomes a bad statistical number? Especially when it comes to bigger animals like wolves, bears, lions, hyenas, hippos, buffalos, panthers, polar bears(very dangerous, I've heard that they're one of the few predators that actively hunt humans!) and so on(really boils down to where you live!).
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The thing with Rambo is that he's meant to be a guerilla warfare expert. His trap making time might be exaggerated but he doesn't need to "test" his traps he's made them during many high stress scenarios and it's basically second nature.
Among the fact that he is meant to be a war machine, at this point in the timeline they've broken him down and rebuilt him as a "super soldier" combat is just constantly on his mind. He's always scouting the area, making mental notes of the types of people around him.
As a fictional character, yeah I wouldn't put too much stock into what he did on screen as something an average person could do but I'd bet my left nut there are people capable of feats similar to this, given the right circumstances.
The main problem with a trap like that is getting the person to actually trip it.
@@thenewfire given enough experience and knowledge you could definitely set up a trap that's very likely to get someone. My aunt's stepfather was a Vietnam veteran who specialized in guerrilla warfare, i.e. setting up traps like rambo did just then, and he told me that 90% of setting up a trap is either finding where to put it to guarantee someone walks in, or adjusting the terrain/situation to guide people into the trap
@@nyalan8385 excellent comment
good point. Rambo wasn't out there trying to survive the wild, so much as it was war in this scene; wrong expert overall.
Laura is actually the type of expert you would get to make & set those traps in real life. She does it all the time on Naked & Afraid. She's looking at it from the perspective of making all the trap parts from wilderness scavenged items & saying it's not possible & she is the one that knows if it is or not
The wolves in the Grey were more like metaphorical demons than actual wolves, and they were that way by design. They were just there to show the guys journey from giving up on life, to fighting tooth and nail for it.
Okay cool, still unrealistic.
Either way, it shows wolves being bloodthirsty killers. Which only sways those who are impartial about them to think wolves are actually like that, and makes those who are against wolves even more set in their ways and beliefs
Great episode, Laura was awesome.
There is absolutely NO way you're heating metal/steel over an open fire like that. It's just not gonna work, especially if it's wood fired. Wood fires can get a little hotter than a thousand degrees if you have the right types of hardwood (Pecan, or Oak), so it's never going to melt metal.
Not correct. 1500 degrees is about where the "melting point" is for metal, though the name "melting" in that scale means when it starts to "turn into a liquid". It is mallable way before that. Most regular steel loses like 80-90% of its integrity at temperatures at 800 degrees and thereabout (depending on the alloy). It'll require a lot of muscle and pounding, but it can and has been done. Its not ideal, because it risks breaking/shattering the alloy and what you would need under such circumstances is a tray of pre-heated water (not too cold, cause it'll risk warping the steel).
@@celorfiwyn8193 what do you do the pounding with?
@Celor Fiwyn sorry but, this is wrong. 1500F is towards the low end of the forging temperature of spring steel (5160) which is what was depicted in the movie, while 800F is the the temperature you would use to temper the steel. Forge Welding is done at even higher temperatures (around 2200F) none of which is near the melting temperature.
Can you forge steel in a wood fire? Depending on the composition of the Steel, yes. But it requires appropriate wood, appropriately built fire, and a blower to keep the fire going at higher temperatures. Iron, on the other hand, would be far easier to work with in a wood fire (depending on thickness) but would still take a great deal of time.
Cuddle the guts! Bacteria is where the heat is! Remembering that forever
Probably one of the best films I've seen about survival in the woods is John Sayles' film "Limbo." They're worried about having enough food, wet clothing, lack of medicine. Nothing dramatic.
As a wildlife biologist and rattlesnake wrangler, I love how she debunks the mythology of the dangerous & aggressive megafauna. Animals really don't like fighting unless they absolutely must, and they have a particularly keen interest in avoiding humans too. In my animal/wilderness info & safety presentations, I almost always reference how infrequently wolves, snakes, and bears attack compared to animals like dogs and deer
I will never forget when my sister and her then boyfriend came back from mushroom picking with baskets full of mushrooms. They had the good sense to put the different types into separate baskets. Three baskets clearly had edibable mushrooms in them, easily identifiable. But two types were much harder. The illustrations and the descriptions in our mushroom guide book did not clarify the issue to an extent that you could have eaten any of them with confidence. We had lively debates whether they were of the edibable or non-edibable (or even poisonous) variety. Some that might or might not be edidable looked quite similar. In the end we tossed the ones that we were not 100% certain about. No point in risking it.
Damn, I'm fucked. I find it hard to survive in my own kitchen.
lol.. i can feel that
Thanks, now I'm motivated to make dinner after sitting around for three hours
Truth. The Bears are the biggest problem in mine...
'If you wanna stay and fight, then fight', it relates perfectly to all kinds of situations
You could make the case that because Rambo served in Vietnam and fought an effective guerilla-style war against the Vietnamese, who were very skilled at building devious, effective, and cruel wooden traps. So, while I always wondered the same thing, how did Rambo get the trap to swing with that much force, it is conceivable that this is something he picked up in Vietnam.
Also, when he surprises the Sheriff, after taking out his deputies, if you look at the film carefully, you can actually see Rambo crouching under the tree; his back up, and until he springs it's really difficult to make him out. So the camo of leaves definitely worked. It's late and dark in the forest so conceivably you wouldn't need much camo if any, because, in reality, that forest would've been practically pitch black.
If you follow the scene, Rambo clearly has a game plan in the way he behaves, so perhaps he simply did not think he needed more.
The Office clip would get a 10 out of 10 from me if they included the scene in which Dwight says "Watch out for snakes!". Gotta love a fellow MSTIE.
His face when Michael goes to eat the mushrooms is hysterical.
This was very eye-opening. She's super knowledgeable. 🙂
"If you're gonna stay and fight, then FIGHT!" I like this chick!
„Woman“, don’t be a chauvinist.
Zerra is so cool. Loved the series, she can really talk about survival after her tough trips...
fun fact, frigid cold water can actually knock people out the way it did to the lady in the one scene. people have a natural gasp, or a natural moment of shock when they hit cold water, and it can put people into a state of panic, causing them to fall unconscious. moral of this lesson tho, don’t walk on frozen lakes, ponds, any kind of frozen water. it’s a bad idea
or at least if you have to keep a very thick stick horizontally in your arm's to keep you from falling completely under.
10 points for the fainting goat reference ! lol
Her fire advice is outstanding 👍
15:00 The other thing about pools of water in a wild fire is that if the water body is not large enough the water can actually heat up and eventually burn you. In the case of swimming pools they get hot enough to boil you alive.
I’ve often found throwing rocks and stones at wolves make them leave quickly and not come back especially if you managed to hit it in a good throw
I've found my 44 magnum really makes them go away. PERMANENTLY LOL jk I could never kill a wolf so majestic and beautiful creature
the first one is realistic because he never claimed to be a survivalist
Very true
It's always interesting to see how a professional will rate someone that actually did it in real life. Sometimes it's the little mistakes that actually show the realism.
I met a Wolf born in captivity. He was over 200 pounds and very smart. I can't imagine one in the wild being less than him.
As a Wildland Firefighter I loved your fire assessment
Toward the end, speaking of wet wool... wool weighs a ton when it's wet. It may still retain heat but... it's heavy. That's always one point about people falling into water in movies that drives me crazy-- they usually sink like a stone because all their clothes weigh so much when they're wet (another reason Kate Winslet never would have floated... not until after she died).
Little known fact: Bell-bottom jeans were styled after the navy uniform, which was specifically designed with the wide bottoms so if a sailor fell into the water, he could take his pants off over his shoes. They didn't want to lose their shoes. But the fabric was so heavy they wouldn't survive. If a sailor can't survive I doubt an average person could.
Is wet wool heavier than water? How does that work?
@@whocaresguy no you won't. Do you have the foggiest idea how anything related to science works? Archimedes understood buoyancy 23 centuries ago. 'Scale' a sponge?
@@whocaresguy are you for real? What is the relative density of wool and water, or sponge and water? Wool has a density of 1.3 g/cm3. Sponge has a density of .25 g/cm3. A wet sponge floats. Wet wool sinks, barely. If there are any air bubbles at all in The wool, like felt, it floats.
That spring loaded trap is entirely possible while manipulating the bendable features of green wood. If you use the right wood for the base and the right wood for the other portions to leverage the torque to avoid all the pressure on just one branch it would work. Also adding reinforcement to the structure would also help. The pants worn by the antagonists also comes into play, they aren’t durable in the least and these men are depicted as individuals who clearly don’t work out often so they may be identified with soft muscle tissue. Only argument i would see on the effectiveness of that trap is how deep the wooden spikes can go into the legs.
Most often times in Vietnam they used wooden or bamboo spikes on logs or drop traps, in those cases the vietnamese would place human feces on the spikes to cause infection and sepsis
Also wood makes surprisingly strong springs bows being a good example
Well. Gotta give it to her that she wasn't in the special forces. :)
Also, path of least resistance. Set the trap where you would walk.
She didn't say it wasn't possible, but expecting to be able to make one in haste while on the run and having it have to work first time in a place you have zero guarantee your persuer will even go makes it a very unreliable choice to spend your time on, by the time he made that he could have been a few miles away
@@jedaaa Rambo had hours to prepare the traps 🤷♂️
Impressed by her ability to explain these scenarios in a really clear way.
"Wolves do not attack humans" says the girl with a Wolfman eating the human lady on her arm.
I wonder what EVA would say??
Yea she said it, what’s the confusion
its just a tattoo lmao what
LOL Hmmm maybe a skinwalker visiting you in the middle of the night might open your eyes.
@@brennerc180 a mule will wait his whole life to kick you, then kill you lol anything equestrian definitely poses a threat to life
It’s a werewolf, a mythical creature.
Rambo's leaf camo was a technique he learned from fighting the Vietcong and NVA. They had harnesses where you could strap leaves and foliage to your back easily and hide better while lying down on your stomach, or could be strapped to your chest. Cheap, light weight and great for waiting to conduct an ambush (as we see Rambo do in the film).
The fire analysis is spot on… it’s been my career for 15+ years and I always get annoyed with the lack of smoke in all of the Hollywood fires. I get it tho, wouldn’t be very entertaining with limited visibility. Great series!
There is a career in everything. Never knew that someone could be a professional wilderness survivalist
To my knowledge the fainting goats don't go unconscious, they're not actually fainting like a human. Instead, all their muscles seize up (myotonia) so they're unable to keep themselves upright, usually because they were in the process of running away. If you use a muscle, for example to try and run away when startled, there are mechanisms that physically cause the muscle to relax again. In fainting goats and other animals that have that genetic mutation, there's a failure of the initial contraction to terminate. So once tensed, the muscle doesn't relax again. It's kind of like a button getting stuck; after pushing the button, once you stop pushing on it, it should come back up again so you can push it again. But in this case, the button doesn't come back up.
She looks like Marie avgeropoulos twin
"False premise" ??? Wolf attacks are common in Eurasia. Stop using North America as a barometer for behavior of species
@@rbubela i think you responded to the wrong comment lol
She does, I had to do a double take when I first saw the thumbnail.
@@Treadstone2006 Same I seriously thought it was her, I was like Octavia???
I think she looks like a badass Abbi Jacobson
“If you’re gonna fight, then fight.”. Beautiful statement and perspective.
she was absolutely wonderful in Naked and Afraid and won every single challenge she did. And her attitude was always so positive and hopeful.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for speaking up for wolves!!
Yeah we have a huge problem still in the current day of killing off wolves in North America , depicting them as man eaters on top of ranchers justifying killing everyone they see really makes it hard to get the public behind protecting that species
The first one: he should have learned from Han and Luke with the Tauntuan from Empire Strikes Back
And I thought they smelled bad on the outside
It is documented that wolves in human areas have evolved to fear humans and will go out of their way to avoid us. Interestingly wolves in areas that have no human population have been observed to have no fear of humans but also don’t see us as prey or a threat, if anything they’re curious. That does not mean press your luck and forget you’re dealing with an apex predator- it just means that wolves aren’t the threat we paint them out to be.
Wow, that's a true professional. Amazing episode!
“Is she like one of those fainting goats?”
Lol
Not sure I see eye to eye on that scene from The Edge. The whole point of that film is that they are completely out of their element, so naturally, they're doing wrong things. Feels plenty realistic to me, given that Laura points out that the bear could potentially attack three men around a fire.
Im loving this series
"Wolf's aren't man eaters" Also her with a wolf tattoo on her arm eating a woman. Even if it's a werewolf lol jk
Really bugs me when these survivalists watch a scene involving animals out of context from the whole movie, then they complain about it
@@Sean_thompson_bass Blame Insider for only showing them the scene then, though it's unrealistic to expect her to watch every movie they want a scene criticised in.
@@Sean_thompson_bass they're just shown the clips of these movies, they dont watch the entire movie to break down a single scene so its not their fault they dont know the entire context of the scene, they just do what theyre told to, which is analyze and critique survival scenes based off of how realistic they are.
Comments in 2025: lol jk xd nt nt lol lol jk
That’s not a wolf lol
Im new to this series but this lady is easily one of the best out of the 30 or so ive watched so far. Shes wicked.
Thank you about explaining that about wolves. Wolves are back in the Netherlands and so many people are afraid that people will get attacked.
Those scenes from First Blood seemed to be much darker on the VHS versions and somehow more in line with the mentioned weathe conditions too. His camo would have easily worked with that.oh and btw, steel/iron starts melting or burning at 1500 C° already, you can technically forge it even cold ,depending on its brittleness and elasticity ratio, but it gets easier with increasing temperatures, so this wood fire would probably work in some way, but it seems to me that he would need to have a way to blow air into the fire to heat it up enough to get that color on his iron bar.
you can forge cold steel with sheer force yes. but it will become brittle and eventually break on the edges. And it needs A LOT OF FORCE. The iron rod he is working in the clip is like 1.25x2.5 inches and he does neither have an actual hammer nor an anvil. He bashes the rod with another rod and uses the rocky terrain as an anvil. looks like lime stone to me. lots of gravel around. the stone is probably rather brittle. i dont think that this scene would work in real life with this set-up. Controlled fire ventilation is one thing you already mentioned to be important. But a proper hammer and anvil are just as important i think.
@@rumpelpumpel7687 Trenton Tye does it in one video - forges a knife on a rock - and if I remember correctly, he doesn't even have a proper hammer. He did that video to prove, that we don't have to have fancy equipment. He has a blower and real coal tho. I tried to forge once with coal that wasn't completely dry - dad dug it out of a construction site - the former land owner buried it there (some WW2 missiles were also buried not so far away LOL), and it completely sucked. It took me like half an hour to bend a goddamn rebar into meat hook. 😅 The coal took forever to ignite, even with fluid, and then cooled down super fast.
@@ericbrass3434 yes it's probably not impossible to forge a knife on a rock. I've come across a video where a dude actually casts knife blades from liquid iron that is barely above the melting point. It works, but the quality ... well - in my opinion it could be easier to create some cutting edge tool from stone or glass or a sheet metal in a survival situation. I agree, that you can do basic forging without having a blacksmith shop around and without proper tools, but it will probably cost much more time and enegy to forge and form something this way, and it will probably be of lesser quality. AND dangers of hurting yourself might also increase drastically when you work with random substitutions instead of trustworthy tools.
Taking your clothes off when wet: Not a survivalist, but I love outdoor sports and so of course I’ve gotten soaked in the dead of winter. Even in NYC or easily in Los Angeles you can find yourself totally isolated with no open stores or other shelter nearby.
Basically, if I can at least wring out most of the water, I’ll do that piece by piece, starting with my socks because it’s usually the lower part of the body that gets the wettest, and I’m not exposing my core. I can also use the wrung out socks like a towel to soak up water from other parts of my body, wring them out again, and repeat.
I carry spare socks and gloves when heading out in Winter, even for cycling.
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It seems the greatest myth spread by film and television is, all wild animal are in a state of constant, very alert and energetic rage, and will attack absolutely anything, especially a human-because humans are a-holes who also happen to be delicious because they are so over fed with stuff that is scarce in the wild like delicious fats, battered and deep fried in more fats, topped with fatty sauces and cheese. Humans, yum! And there are so many of them; surely they won’t miss a few!
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It took years of intense actor training and experience playing cold when she’s hot and hot when she’s cold for Kate Winslett to learn how to faint beautifully on queue. Could you survive a gauntlet of hair, makeup, and wardrobe and a full SIX HOURS before a hot buffet all you can eat meal?! Some days we have no time for even a cappuccino from craft services between takes! Can you imagine….
I guess you could survive that. Please, go on.
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I think the myth that you can run across breaking ice comes from the fact that snowmobiles do it. But a snowmobile going fast enough can cross even plain liquid water like a waterski over a short distance.
Things to always keep in your car for survival:
Tarps, tent, medical bag, water, blankets, flares, lighters, boots, socks, warm jacket, poncho, gloves, wool hat, duct tape, knife, axe, hammer, nails, hand saw, tinder.
I typically keep all of those things in the trunk of my car at all times.
Spare car as well
Thanks for highlighting the wildlife myths. I've been trained by wildlife biologists in bear safety and I was surprised by how much I didn't know. For example, that there are times you should make yourself big and loud, times you should not, etc. Always remember, yall: bears do not want to hunt and kill you, but their main priority is food. If they don't eat enough, they die in winter. So you can't give them anything that would make them curious about you ("i'm gonna walk up to this human because they migbt have food"). NEVER drop your bag as a distraction for a bear. NEVER run. Always do the opposite of the bear: If the bear is defensive and trying to get you to go away(stomping, flattened ears, basically pissed off) be calm and de-escalate and talk softly and back away slowly. If the bear is curious and approaching you to figure you out(on hind legs to look at you, sneaking toward you, walking slowly), be loud and big. Do not back away or yield to it. Stand your ground. Teach it to stay away from people. And always carry bear spray (for brown bears) and KNOW HOW TO USE IT if the bear gets too close. It can save your life and save the bear's (and the bear will learn to avoid people).
The guy who brought the duck tape on Naked & Afraid was USMC buddy Josh. Yeah we gave him a hard time about that one. But under the circumstances, it was smart.
Laura is awesome. Everyone should watch her N&A episodes if you haven't, especially the XL ones. She's such a baller.
5 years later : animated people reviewing animated films that how real it is
While the traps in Rambo were just from a movie they actually weren’t incorrect for the timeframe and the person who was supposed to be making them. Soldiers in Vietnam experienced a lot traps not so different and especially green berets which is what he was in the movie did extensively train with not just detecting traps like that but how to make them and even into modern day they still do some training in that type of thing even having field manuals showing how to make them but the last 2 decades that sort of training has been less important with combat theater’s going almost exclusively into the desert or urban terrains
This breakdown needs more love, this is great
Slight correction on the running from wolves....it would not do nothing. It would just mean you die tired. About breathing in super hot air, that would likely cause a burn which if survived could cause your lungs to seep moisture and cause difficulty breathing and possible suffocation. I've not seen this as a fire reaction, but I did see this happen with a chemical reaction when someone breathed in petrol/gasoline while siphoning from a tank. They did not get a lot into their lungs, but we had to use an ambu bag to assist with their breathing and the positive pressure will push fluid back out of the lungs and into the bloodstream. I was driving the ambulance in that instance so I only really know what I heard happening in the back.
This person is pretty right on, 3 decades of bush biologist experience take it for what it's worth. Just goes to show, age, hers, isn't the only key to wisdom. Except for the knife thing, big enough to baton fuel wood ( trust me), you can still dissect a beast with a big knife, KA Bar Becker is purfect!
I actually survived a forest fire by wading out into the middle of a pond when I was a boy. I was lucky that I was not having any issues with smoke and able to breath okay the whole time. I just waited it out until it was safe to come out.
Regarding the Into the Wild clip, I have seen a compelling argument that he didn't necessarily misidentify the plant, but that it was a plant that was toxic only in really high amounts, to an already-compromised person, which he was. It had been known about in folk medicine for years and years, and was even used in experiments by the Nazis.
They still don't know for sure what he ate. There's more than one theory on what he ate and how it reacted.
@@thenewfire That's pretty much my point. They only presented one theory in the video.
I love this woman! She's the best who have appeared in Naked and Afraid
Thank you so much for actually starting the video with the movie in the thumbnail
The Edge is a very underrated movie.I think why the characters made most of the mistakes they made was because they were panicking.When you panic you don't think clearly.
Yes true. They don't know how to survive in the wild, and that's the whole point of the messy mistakes they made.
I love "The Edge". Great (and severely underrated) flick. BUT... I'm not watching it as a how-to guide on survival in the Alaskan wilderness or a how-to on bear hunting. Great (make-believe) action/drama, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin's a-hole character dies in the end.
love how the wolves patiently wait for Liam Neeson to gear up instead taking the opportunity when he looks down to chop into his neck. I LOVE villain logic the most when it's applied to wild animals LMAO
I think I've watched every episode of her on Naked & Afraid I loved watching her with Jeff I think I was funny that he didn't want to share.
Wildfires are terrifying to me, i'm so glad i live in the NE where they are not a thing. When the woods burn around here it's caused by people 99% of the time
Pretty good video. I learned a few things I hadn't thought about.
I would have given "The Grey" a higher score, though. She's correct about electrical tape being brittle, especially cold, but it's better than braiding or laying some grass, real quick, to tie things on. And he definitely didn't want to drop his sharp weapons, because the wolves weren't going to lose theirs.
nah. those bottles would have very easily caused him more harm than the wolves. would have been much smarter to break the biggest bottle and just hold it as a stabbing mechanism like he did the knife. more control that way.
The Into The Wild clip is absolutely real. It’s a biopic of Christopher McCandless, a young suburban kid who out of the blue decided to renounce all his possessions and hitchhike across the US to live in the wilds of Alaska. He had this overly romantic notion about living free off the land, away from civilization. Unfortunately he was a city kid with precisely zero outdoor experience.
Actually he had a lot of experience for his age - problem is that survival is very hard. Nature does not forgive mistakes - he made a mistake and nature killed him. One mistake - all it takes.
@@tomk3732 no he wasn’t. He was, at best, an enthusiastic amateur. Sure, Wikipedia describes him as an “avid outdoorsman” who went on lengthy hikes. But that could mean anything. If I climb a few hills in my local area, that may earn me the description of an avid mountaineer, doesn’t mean I’m ready to climb Mt Everest. And there is a pretty big difference between going on a nature hike and living off the land in the Alaskan wilderness.
Also, and you would do well to understand this, accidents are never the result of “one mistake”, they are the result of a series of lapses, errors and bad calls that culminate in an event. McCandless went into Alaska with no map, no experience in that part of world, limited gear and supplies and no plan. Most of what he knew about survival he’d gleaned from books. He ignored the advice of locals and went off on his own with no means of calling for help if things went south. So no, it wasn’t “one mistake”
@@CharlieNoodles He was 24 at time of death. He had lived, traveled and hiked for about 2 years before going to Alaska where he survived for almost 2 months off the land before he decided to head back. 2 months off the land, with 10lbs of rice surviving by hunting is not something most people would find easy. I would not call this lengthy hikes - as these for most people mean a day hike, he went on for multi month trips where he managed to sustain himself. Backpacking with limited gear, no food supply for months at a time is sheer definition of survival experience.
It sure takes one mistake. One. Maybe you need to go outdoors more. I have climbed many mountains over 6000m solo, including Denali, and trust me, all it takes is one mistake. I was present in few situations where people either died or were severely injured due to single mistake.
Remember he was just 24, for someone this young he accumulated quite a lot - how many 24 year old people do you think would survive this long? There were some murderers escaping Canadian authorities just touch younger then him, amateurs, and what, they made it like 3 days in the wilderness before taking their own lives.
@@tomk3732 believe what you want. I’ve worked for over 20 years in an industry with a strong safety culture. Accidents are NEVER the result of a single mistake and neither was Christophers death.
@@CharlieNoodles I think you are thinking of contributing factors. For example, rock climber failed to clip in on rappel and fell to his death. His fatal mistake for me would be not checking his/her system. You may add the fact he or she were tired after climbing & not having anyone to take a look at them.
Not exactly sure how you defined acts of God - fatal mistake was being out there? I.e. You are climbing, rock dislodges above you and hits you on the head - bam you are dead / avalanche releases and you get killed despite taking all precautions.