Category: Old Ways

Hang Son Doong is the world’s largest cave with its own river and weather system

Do you want to do some caving but you get claustrophobic?  Well, this could be for you.  The Hang Doong cave is amazing and you…

20 Beautiful colorized photos of Native Americans in the late 19th & early 20th centuries

Paul Ratner a filmmaker compiled this fascinating photo collection of Native Americans  while  working on his project Moses on the Mesa, a film about a German-Jewish immigrant who…

How to keep your teeth clean in the wilderness

Dental hygiene more than important, especially in a survival scenario when your toothpaste is empty or lost. Keeping your teeth clean while lost in some…

Nine Mile Canyon in Utah’s desert is the world’s longest & oldest ‘art gallery’

The Nine Mile Canyon is located deep in the Utah desert in the Western United States. It is known as “the world’s longest art gallery”…

The man who’s moving the giant redwoods (video)

Over 100 years ago, near Eureka, California, loggers cut down a Sequoia sempervirens, also knows as a coast redwood. As a result of that, a…

They shot each other out of the sky then needed each other to survive the Norwegian wilderness

Into the White was a 2012 Norwegian film loosely based on real events from World War II’s Norwegian Campaign, when the Allies tried to keep the…

Can animals predict natural disasters?

In 2004 an 810-mile swath of the Sunda megathrust fault cracked under the Indian Ocean. It caused a 9.1 magnitude undersea earthquake off the shore…

The bridges and roads that lead nowhere – bizarre artifacts deep in the San Gabriel Mountains

The Bridge to Nowhere is an arch bridge that was built in 1936 north of Azusa, California in the San Gabriel Mountains, to be part…

The DIY motorhome made from two 1962 Buick station wagons

Looks like a motorhome made from It appears to be made of 2 1962 Buick station wagons. I just don’t think the laws and regulations…

256 year old Chinese herbalist – Li Ching-Yuen

The longest human lifespan which is officially recorded is that of Jeanne Louise Calment, a French woman who lived 122 years. However, there are some…