Profiles

PREPARED TO SURVIVE

GRETCHEN CORDY
A veteran of the first “Survivor” television series and a nationally recognized wilderness expert, Gretchen was an Air Force survival instructor for six years teaching pilots and crewman how to survive in the wilderness. This involved maintaining a positive mental outlook in addition to improvising shelters, building fires, procuring water and signaling for help. In addition, she was a regular contributor to a PBS television show; providing instruction and guidance for staying safe in the outdoors. Gretchen currently co-host a morning radio show and lives with her husband and two children in Clarksville, TN.

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