Survival School: How To Eat Your Hiking Partner

Backpacker.com ^ | 10/15/2014

[CtBigPat]

Would you resort to cannibalism if your life depended on it? A shocking number of our readers said "yes." Our expert shows you how to do the unthinkable.

[CtBigPat]

http://www.backpacker.com/view/videos/survival-videos/survival-school-how-to-eat-your-hiking-partner/

[yldstrk]

no. I would rather die.

[arderkrag]

“Jim! Can you hear me Jim?...Welllllppp, looks like Jim’s for dinner.”

[CrazyIvan]

Anyone else remember the shirts/bumper stickers “Rugby Players Eat Their Dead”?

[353FMG]

Aw, c’mon.

It will take quite some time before you’re so hungry that you would consider eating your hiking partner.

By that time, your partner will stink a mile in the wind and he would be covered by maggots and flies.

Bon appetite.

[driftdiver]

no, a living partner is worth more than some long pork.

[DJlaysitup]

Don’t forget to pack some dried Fava beans ;^)

[Focault's Pendulum]

Ping???

[CtBigPat]

And a nice Chianti.

[faithhopecharity]

well, McD’s makes be belch .... cannabilism looks better....

[Diana in Wisconsin]

With a side of Fava Beans and a nice Chianti?

I’d consider it. ;)

[Drango]

Can’t we go back to just smoking dope in the backcountry? This gives me the creeps.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

Timothy, Timothy, Joe was looking at you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNdvKvbxYQ

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL! LESS than a MINUTE! :)

[Ouderkirk]

In places like....Liberia Sierra Leone, etc. a dead man is good eats. A friend was over there. Said he could hear gunshots, all the time, yet there were never any bodies laying in the streets. He said a local told him that meat protein is hard to come by in that neck of the woods, and that a man represents a good meal, no matter how bad it tastes. If you’re hungry enough, it all tastes good. They will pick up the body before it starts to spoil and have the thing gutted, de-boned and cooked within the hour.

[elcid1970]

A far easier moral dilemma is you & your fellow hiker being chased by a grizzly bear.

You don’t have to outrun the bear, just your partner.

[XEHRpa]

For some strange reason, I am reminded of the joke about the grizzly approaching the two guys in their forest camp. The one is frantically tying his running shoes on his feet. The other says, “what are you doing? You can’t outrun a grizzly bear?!” The first replies, “I don’t have to outrun the bear... I just have to outrun you.”

[arderkrag]

Wow. Great minds.

[Billthedrill]

Great stuff. It'll keep you from wasting your time trying to harvest the bony parts. The Donner party went after the liver - that's why they called it a "party" after all - but if you happen to have been toting that Dutch oven along there's nothing like a little rump roast, cooked with some taters, onions, carrots, and a little flour to thicken the gravy. Now, you're gonna ask me Bill, why would you eat yer hiking partner if you have all of that stuff?

The flavor.

[familyop]

"Anyone else remember the shirts/bumper stickers 'Rugby Players Eat Their Dead'?"

Yep. I played second row for a university club, and one of our props was from Colombia. ;-)