Survive in the jungle

Survival expert James Mandeville teaches you how

James Mandeville knows how to survive. He spent ten of his 23 years in the military teaching soldiers how to infiltrate, survive, fight in the jungle and exfiltrate. Familiar with the jungles of Belize, Brunei, Singapore and Indonesia, he has the knowledge and training that you need.

Now a successful author of survival manuals and owner of www.survival-expert.com, James has shared his detailed knowledge of jungle survival with WideWorld. Here are his tips on how to get along – and get out alive.

“Cloud and rainforest survival is a specialist topic and survival training and exposure to these biomes is necessary to understand the environment and survive confidently in it,” James explains. “I have given you the bare bones here, I hope you can distil from it what you need.”

1. Take stock

If one becomes lost it can be very frightening and most people make the situation worse by blindly stumbling on in panic to try and find their way back to their start point. It is vital to stop, calm down and take stock of the situation and then formulate a plan of what to do for the best. The best survival tool is one’s own psyche.

2. Leave a message

The first rule of survival has to be to let someone know exactly where you are going and when you expect to arrive back. It is very easy to get lost in the forest or be delayed by injury. Unless a search and rescue party has a good pinpoint on the expedition’s location it would be nigh impossible to find anyone lost in forest in this area.

3. Know navigation

Each team member should carry a compass and know how to use it. Navigation in cloud and rainforest is difficult because there are no obvious landmarks. A compass basically stops you walking round in circles. Even if using GPS a compass is a must. The golden rule of getting out of dense forest is to find a river and follow it downstream in the hope of finding civilisation.

4. Signals

Knowing the international distress signals is essential, especially knowing how....

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