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What Are The Pros And Cons Of Surviving In The Wilderness
Surviving in the Wilderness Has anyone ever heard of Man vs Wild? Now on that television reality show it teaches everyone about the pros on surviving in the wilderness and now all everyone could just listen about the cons on surviving in the wilderness. Surviving in the wilderness is an idiotic thing to do because people die from animals, poisonous plants, and dumb decisions people make out there. Say if someone sees a bear and the bear goes near them and they wanted a photo for their Snapchat or Instagram.
Literally anyone could try to survive out there in the wilderness but if anyone made a wrong turn out there it could end their life like that, and nobody will know that their gone to it is too late like Chris.
Alex went way to under
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“The wild potato, it would describe closely related species, wild sweet peas which was Alex mistake of thinking that the wild sweet peas where wild potatoes which are also poisonous but you would have to eat a lot of them to actually kill him” (krakauer 191). Not everyone is good or excellent at surviving in the wilderness some are better than others that is how it works some of us are already out there hunting right now.
All in all surviving in the wilderness is not for everyone, there are lots of animals, plants, and skills that come in on surviving in the wilderness because anything could happen out there waiting on someone or something to come near it right now and get it.
These are just some reasons on why trying to survive in the wilderness is just a terrible idea that everyone says they could do, or maybe there's just something out there waiting on them. These topic also affects everyone out there that wants to go out there and try to survive in the wilderness because nobody wants to die, get eaten alive, get poisoned from eating the wrong type of plant, or dieing from starvation. These would be all of the cons in living or surviving in the

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