Three years, 50+ km of field use — would I buy them again? When it comes to footwear, I'm pretty particular. One thing I always tell people when I teach survival is: "In a survival situation, the three things you need to protect are your hands, your feet and your eyes." Your hands allow you to build shelter, make fire, process materials and carry out countless other survival tasks. Your feet get you where you need to go — whether that's moving through difficult terrain, colle

Three affordable fixed-blade knives put through their paces When it comes to survival and bushcraft gear, I'm not particularly interested in knives that only look good sitting in a display case. A survival knife needs to be useful. It needs to be comfortable in the hand, capable of taking some abuse and, particularly here in Western Australia, able to cope with an environment where moisture and salt can be a constant problem. The guys at PrepPro Australia sent me three of the

A lightweight way to turn questionable water into something you can actually drink In a survival situation, finding water is only half the problem. The water you find isn't necessarily safe to drink. That was what I wanted to test with the Puribag 120L System — an Australian-designed water treatment system that combines water treatment and storage into a lightweight, portable package. The system is designed around treating 10 litres of water at a time, with the 120L kit conta