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An expert navigator explains the toughest environment to get lost in – and a simple trick to find your way again
Business Insider spoke with expert navigator Tristan Gooley, author of "How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea", about the most dangerous environment to get lost in and a simple trick to find your way again.
He said: "People expect me to say deserts, sandy ones or icy ones. But actually, the answer I give is always the same. It’s any wooded environment with an overcast sky.
"If the sun, moon or stars are out it is pretty straightforward. If you’re in open country there are clues all around you. But once you get into dense woodland and it’s cloudy above, you have to use a whole new set of techniques.
"We are relying on storm damage because light winds don’t make it into the heart of dense woodland. What we need to do is look for trees that have been blown down by a storm and we will find a trend there.
"Then the detective work begins because we’ve got to work out which way these trees have come down.
"We might be lucky and catch a glimpse of the sun and that helps us work out perhaps all the trees have been blown down from south-west to northeast."
Produced and filmed by Leon Siciliano
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