ŽIGA OGORELEC | Science of Survival
SPECIAL COURSES & TRIPS
A handful of one-off expeditions and extreme scenarios that sit outside the regular course ladder. Each has its own format, location and prerequisites.
4 days / Slovenia
Extreme course
For those who want to test their survival skills under genuinely demanding circumstances. The course puts you inside a real scenario: on the run from pursuers, you have to survive several days in the wild with nothing but a knife, making your way to a safe location. Alongside covering difficult, striking terrain, you’ll face cold nights, dehydration, food scarcity, river crossings and steep rock faces. Requires a completed Intermediate course and very good physical fitness.
5 days / Croatian islands
Island survival
A coastal survival scenario, focused on the skills that matter when the wilderness around you is water rather than forest. Main activities: bow drill fire, sourcing water (beach wells, solar stills, boiling), and finding food — meat, fish and wild fruit. You’ll build a fishing rod, a small pier and a raft, and weave a fishing net. Beyond that: extracting drinking water by digging, harvesting salt, preparing and preserving meat, refining distillation methods, other ways to source water and preserve food, edible marine organisms, and spearfishing.
6 days / Slovenia
Living off the land trips
A moving expedition rather than a fixed camp. Every trip starts from a new location, and you cover the ground on foot, by raft, or by whatever the terrain calls for — carrying only what you need and what you can forage or build along the way. Food, water and shelter strategy shifts constantly as the landscape does, from forest to river to whatever comes next. Since the route is never the same twice, neither is the challenge.
Other special courses and trips
On request, a specially tailored course or trip could be organised according to your wishes. Examples include building a dugout canoe and rafting down the river (5 + 5 days, SLO), building a Zemljanka shelter with a clay chimney (as in Alone S13), winter survival, etc.
