At this year’s Bushcraft Show, legendary survival expert Ray Mears opened his talk with a deceptively simple message: “Be prepared.” And by the end of his tale, no one in the audience was in any doubt that he meant it quite literally.
Ray had found himself in Spain during the recent electrical blackout. Planes were grounded, the airport shut down, and all nearby hotels were full. It was late – past 10 p.m. — and in Spain, that’s when many hotels lock up for the night. No flights, no power, no internet, no phone signal. He had one tenuous link to his team via WhatsApp, who arranged a hotel ten miles away. But when he got there, it too was closed.
So, what do you do in a blackout, ten miles from the airport, with no transport, no power, and nowhere to stay in the middle of the night?
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