If you were in the artic, on the frozen ocean, all alone, with no trees, how would you start a fire??

Question

i saw this on survivor man....there were'nt trees for miles and miles. how in the heck do you start a fire to stay warm with no wood??

Answer 1

There are other flamable materials in the arctic other than wood, under the snow and ice there are fragments and wood and even dirt can be burned if you have an ignighter of some kind , like gas or lighter fluid.

Answer 2

I think Rick M has the answer. And if you have no matches, lighter, or flint, you could carefully shape some ice using the warmth of your body into a magnifying glass. This could be used to direct the sun's rays onto some cloth until ignition occurs. Of course if it's winter with no appreciable sunlight, you're screwed.

Answer 3

you find wood

there are patches of forest ever so far

and you can also burn animal fat or the dirt is so cold it is dry and it is almost like mulch, wich can be burnt

Answer 4

umm. with a match, and some of your clothing?

Answer 5

You can use the moss and I would use my eye glasses to start the fire.  There is lots of moss up north, that's what the caribou eat.

Answer 6

With seal oil...you drink it to stay warm from the inside and burn it in a clay tray to warm you from the outside. I lived in Barrow, Alaska for 2 years. It's easy to find...just keep going north until you can't go north anymore...your in Barrow.