Forging a Knife & Survival Camping Alone in the Wilderness

Summary by Krater

Luke from Outdoor Boys camps in an Alaskan wilderness snow shelter, building a charcoal kiln, making a custom knife, and cooking various camp meals over three days in freezing conditions.

From the video

Answers: How do you make a knife from scratch and survive in a snow shelter in Alaska?

• wilderness survival in snow shelter
• making charcoal in barrel
• forging and sharpening knife
• outdoor camp cooking

Ingredients

• frozen salami
• cheese
• baked potato
• whole chicken
• salt
• pepper
• bacon chunks
• green onions
• yellow onions
• chives
• butter
• oil
• spicy honey barbecue sauce
• Australian Tim Tam cookie
• hot chocolate mix
• moose ribs
• moose stew
• Cornish pasty

What it concludes

• Building a charcoal kiln in a barrel successfully produces usable charcoal after 17 hours of burning.
• Quenching a high-carbon steel knife in snow and cooling it down makes it harder, allowing it to be tested for hardness with a file.
• Applying file strokes in both directions works better than just one direction when shaping a knife.
• A hot smoke-roasted chicken over an open fire produces tender meat that easily pulls off the bone.