When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. We compare an emergency blanket vs bivy for unfortunate incidents in the mountains to help you ...

Sometimes the simplest innovations are among the best. Thus is the case with two new bivy sacks from Adventure Medical Kits (www.adventuremedicalkits.com), which are essentially improvements on the ...

Emergencies are short-term urgent situations that often can be resolved. If they can’t, they may become life-threatening survival scenarios — and often it’s something simple that can make the ...

The problem with the emergency bivvy sacks made of the heat-reflective space blanket material is that while they provide warmth, they don’t let moisture escape. Thus, you sweat. But a new material in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Remember your dad’s old emergency blankets? The aluminum foil-like sheet that folded as small as a deck of cards and tore like toilet paper? Important, maybe ...

Anyone who’s been camping in wet weather knows how unpleasant it can be to wake up in a puddle. This DIY semi-bivy provides a completely waterproof layer between you and the ground. A bivy (short for ...