Profiles

PREPARED TO SURVIVE

DOUG RITTER
Doug Ritter is an award winning journalist and internationally recognized authority on survival equipment. He is the founder, publisher and editor of Equipped To Survive (www.equipped.org), the internationally acclaimed survival information source. He also serves as Chairman and Executive Director of the non-profit Equipped To Survive Foundation. Ritter sits on U.S. and international committees that determine specifications for aviation, marine and terrestrial survival equipment, the sole consumer advocate to do so. Ritter consults on survival equipment and survival kit development and often speaks to groups on a variety of survival related subjects.

WHAT OTHERS
ARE SAYING

Everyone wants to tell you what to bring with you when you go out into the wilderness; here is an excellent DVD that shows you how to use all that gear.

Ken Davies
Tacoma Mountain Rescue
Tacoma, Washington

Self-reliance has been a large part of what keeps me attracted to the outdoors. You never know what will be thrown at you out there, and I need to be (and enjoy being) ready, willing, and able to deal with it. Prepared To Survive will take you a long way toward self-reliance if you lack the skills, and a long way further if you already possess some of the skills.

Buck Tilton
Wilderness Medicine Institute
Lander, Wyoming

We have long held the view that a person who enters the wilderness with some forethought as to what could go wrong and comes up with possible answers to those situations is much more likely to react with a cool head, thus making survival a lot more likely. Prepared to Survive is such forethought- it makes you think about the possibilities and gives you answers to some of those nagging questions. It can happen to all of us, and perhaps a lot more people would have survived their ordeals had they seen this video.

Kristin Smith, President
Earth Outfitters
Naples, Florida