Survival Is Your Own Responsibility By Denali National Park Daryl Miller

Marcus Riding Ms. Krick English 8 29 April 2024 Physical Needs Are Your Least Concern Many articles show that emotional skills, physical needs, and intellectual thoughts play a key role in surviving the wilderness, emergencies, etc. Something to note is that emotional, physical, and intellectual skills, are all important in these types of situations, but physical needs in particular are not as important as we think they are.

Intellectual thoughts will help one survive longer in these situations than physical needs because survival expert and Denali National Park Ranger Daryl Miller’s Letter to the public “Survival Is Your Own Responsibility,” near the end of the letter, Miller states, “The prerequisite to misadventure is the belief that you

Another reason that thinking intellectually is better than physical health is shown again in the middle of Miller’s letter when he states, “Most accidents are caused by bad judgment compounded by Alaska’s severe weather & remoteness” (6). The judgment comes from the lack of intelligence in the wilderness and accidents in the wilderness may result in serious injuries or even death of that person. “To Build a Fire” by Jack London Shows the consequences of someone like described in Miller’s letter with intelligence because around the middle of the article Jack’s character in his short story, thinks, “The old man on Sulpher Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair that ensued after fifty-below, a man should travel with a partner” (28) earlier London mentioned about the man’s buddies in the beginning but, the man wanted to go alone instead, it resulted in the man

London also says, “He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree he should have built it in the open.” (22) which is about to be supported with, “the tree under which he had done this carried a weight of snow on its boughs” (22). These two things is what resulted in the thoughts later mentioned and shows the biggest mistake he could’ve ever made and shows why thinking intelligently is a perfect thing to know and to have the knowledge to prevent the error in the future. Emotional control also helps in situations better than physical needs because of “Sea Devil” By Arthur Gordon, the guy after getting tanked by the noose tied around his wrist to the rope to his fishing net which caught a jumping ray and being stuck underwater while trying to get out desperately, Gordon mentions, “he had some heart left but not enough” (36). Having some heart left is enough for you to survive, having calm emotions will help you live as the man who survived this encounter. Another article “Your Brain On Emergencies” by Jerzell Black also connects to the prompt as well because at the end of the article Black states, “Before you take action; calm yourself, shift your