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Survival Kit

Whenever you leave camp, you must take enough to survive. If there is a bad blizzard, you may not be able to be rescued for some days.

 

Contents of the kit

  • 2 sleeping bags
  • 1 snow shovel
  • 1 camp stove
  • 1 first-aid kit
  • 2 ensolite pads
  • 1 sledge hammer
  • 2 white gas
  • 1 signal kit
  • 1 Westwind tent
  • 1 overcoat
  • 1 box of matches
  • 1 survival guide
  • 10 tent stakes
  • 1 pair of socks
  • 1 cook set
  • 1 game
  • 6 ice screws
  • 1 pair of gloves
  • 2 spoons
  • parachute cord
  • 2 snow flukes
  • 1 pair of mittens
  • 2 cups
  • toilet paper

You also need food for 6 days
  • 6 freeze-dried meals
  • 3 bags of trail mix
  • 6 cups of soup
  • 12 tea bags
  • 12 muesli bars
  • 12 packages of cocoa mix

 

The kitchen store room, where food supplies are kept.

Survival bags provide enough equipment and food for two people for three days (or three people for two days). So 12 people would need 6 survival bags. Perhaps the most important item in the survival bag is the tent followed by the primus and fuel. Survival kits do not have radios as the batteries would go flat. All field parties carry radios with spare batteries.

The sleeping bags people use are made from ripstop nylon with a down filling (20%down and 80%goose feathers). The outer bag has a hood. The bags together are rated to -45 degrees C. In the field scientists sleep on thick (100mm) foam mats and the bags have an outer cover as well.

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