Shipwrecked? Avalanche? Blind date? You Need These Survival Strategies

May 14th, 2015 • BY Kate Siber

There are life-threatening situations (tsunamis, avalanches) and pride-threatening situations that inspire almost the same amount of panic (public speaking, waking up with a new tattoo). A little advice on both never hurts. Enter the delightfully irreverent new book, How to Survive Anything: A Visual Guide to Laughing in the Face of Adversity, an illustrated collection of step-by-step survival strategies for handling anything from a nuclear explosion to singing karaoke.

The advice ranges from practical to hilarious, but distinct themes emerge: Be prepared (don’t go into avalanche terrain without a beacon) and prevention is even better than a cure (don’t exit your hotel room naked.) Sometimes, however, adversity still finds you, and if you do get stuck outside of your hotel room in the buff, this book has you covered.

“When a situation presents itself—whether it’s a gunshot wound or bumping into your ex—the general rule is don’t just react without thinking,” says the book’s editor, Jessica Cole. “You might not have time to Google what you should do, but you can always take a moment, even just a fraction of a second, to consider your options and your next move. That instant of clarity might just be enough to give you the advantage over your surroundings and save your life—or your pride.”

Want to learn more? Start with these two survival strategies below and put the book ($19.99; Lonely Planet) on your beach reading wishlist.

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About Kate Siber

Kate Siber has worked as a pastry cook, a small-time farmer, a ski-rental tech, and a thankless-accounting drone, among other distinctive vocations, but the career she tried on and kept was writing. For the last eight years, Siber, a freelance writer and correspondent for Outside magazine, has traipsed the globe in search of stories, shooting blowguns with Amazonian tribes in Ecuador, tracking rhinos in South Africa, and diving with— More about this author →