When disaster strikes in the outdoors, preparedness, training and luck can be the best defences you have – and sometimes survival comes right down to the wire.
Gasping for air as my head broke the surface, I turned upriver to see if my partner had made it out of the canoe. Spying her bobbing head 10m away, all tension left my body – any predicament felt miniscule compared to my fears of half a minute ago. Panic was plain on her face, […]
