Howstuffworks "Travel Safety"

Travel safety keeps your trip from turning into a disaster of paperwork, expenses and even physical injury. Do you know how a black box on an airplane works and how to avoid a pickpocket? HowStuffWorks articles and videos in the Travel Safety section discuss essential steps to being safe and what can happen if you aren’t careful.

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How can I survive a night in the Alaskan wilderness?

You're hoping by tomorrow the search and rescue teams will locate you. In the meantime, you set up shelter for night. But night never comes. Is your mind playing tricks on you?

What Alaskan plants and animals are the best food sources?

Does the thought of sucking down larvae trigger your gag reflex? Then you may not hack it in the wild. Insects are an excellent source of protein. Pry up a rock and you've got dinner.

What natural weapons could I find in the wilderness?

Skin a dead animal. Smash its leg bone into a blade. And use its tendons to tie that blade to a handle. Sound gruesome? That's how you'd make a knife in the wild.

Would a knife or a gun serve me better in the Alaskan wilderness?

In the wilderness, one of these weapons will help you send out a distress signal, keep warm, build a shelter and not drown. The other is relatively worthless.

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