About John Hudson
John Hudson is the UK military’s chief survival instructor, designing and implementing the training of instructors in Land, Sea, and Extreme Environment Survival.
Prior to joining the Royal Air Force as a helicopter pilot, John studied Product Design at Leeds College of Art. He has penned the joint service’s survival training manual, revised the RAF’s aide memoir found in all military aircraft survival packs, and advised on the UK’s SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance & Extraction) training film, watched by all service personnel before deployment overseas.
John Hudson has also been a resident expert on two series of Discovery’s Dude, You’re Screwed (Survive That in the UK), putting his skills to the test in some of the planet’s most demanding environments. Amongst others, John has survived the elements in Asian and Central American jungles, the Arctic Circle, and the high altitudes of the Atacama Desert.
John Hudson is an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and his first book How to Survive: Lessons for Everyday Life from the Extreme World was released by Pan Macmillan on 27th June 2019, having been published in several continents and languages since.
How to Survive: Self-Reliance in Extreme Circumstances
Gripping stories of near disaster and survival—and the lessons to be gleaned from them—from the British military’s chief survival instructor.
When faced with near death, your survival instincts kick in. Instincts can only take you so far, however; it’s preparation and planning that can make the difference between living and dying.
In How to Survive, readers will hear harrowing tales of survival and learn from them. These stories are broken down and studied, whether it’s the experience of a teenager hiking to safety as the only survivor of a plane crash in the Peruvian Amazon, a fisherman drifting for more than 400 days in an open boat across the Pacific Ocean, or a US Air Force fighter pilot forced to eject from his stealth fighter thousands of feet above the earth.
John Hudson, a military survivor instructor, introduces the mindset that he feels is imperative for success: the Survival Triangle. This combination of effort, hope, and goals, along with a few practical skills, provides a premade planning template that can be used to jump-start the whole survival process.
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