Kids spend weeks trekking through the mountains and learning survival tactics like sparking their own fires. In the wild, they face their fears and can confront their challenges.

A few hours watching the Discovery Channel can prompt extreme survival fantasies involving frog licking and urine drinking, but what basic skills would you actually need to survive in the wilderness?

Wilderness survival expert Laura Zerra rates 10 wilderness survival scenes in movies and television shows, such as "The Revenant," for realism.

People can find themselves in a wilderness survival situation either expectedly or unexpectedly. A day hike, hunting trip or sightseeing tour could become a battle for survival if you were to face ...

A tale of survival, motherhood, sacrifice and human nature, Diane Cook’s debut novel “The New Wilderness” offers both an enthralling escape and an unsettling warning about what the future might hold ...

In an anxious time, courses in wilderness survival and military tactics are thriving. Sarah Beth Riess took part in the California Survival School’s weekend-long course in survival and evasion.

Yes, "Yellowjackets," the wild show about cannibalism, gives us a realistic breastfeeding story Add to Shauna's struggles in the woods some very real and rarely discussed complications of trying ...

In the lyrical, if not quite perfectly synthesized 'All the Wilderness,' Michael Johnson has created a coming-to-terms for a struggling teen.

How much do Alone contestants get paid per episode? Alone is the most intense survival series and longest survival experiment on TV. Learn more now.

Discovery to Strand Contestants in Wilderness for Live Reality Show (Exclusive) Viewers will be able to track contestants' progress via a live 24/7 webcam, while survivalists can ask the TV ...

Wilderness pros are trained to deal with physical injuries, but what about the psychological trauma that can result while on an expedition, from fear and stress, or from watching someone die in a ...

Survival schools tend to be rugged boot camp–like outings—and who wants to waste vacation time for that?—but a new crop of outfitters are offering guided trips that teach crucial wilderness ...