Lynx Vilden is a British primitive survival expert known for her wilderness survival skills.[1]

Vilden was born in London, England.[2] She moved to the United States at the age of 21. In the US, she changed her name to Lynx Vilden.[3][4]

Off-grid living edit

Since 1991, Vilden has both practiced and taught wild-living skills.[4][5] Since around 2000, she has run a series of intensive rewilding workshops that she calls "Stone Age projects" in various locations in the US and Europe.[3] In them, participants learn how to make shoes, hunting tools, shelters and how to start fires.[3][6]

The National Geographic film Living Wild documents one of her month-long workshops on stone-age skills.[7] In 2016, she was included in the Channel 5 television series New Lives in the Wild.[8] In 2020, she was included in the Channel 4 series Surviving The Stone Age – Adventure To The Wild.[9]

References edit

  1. ^ "Mulher vive há 10 anos isolada como na Idade da Pedra". 4 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Living Wild (And off the Grid) with Lynx Vilden". 23 July 2014.
  3. ^ a b c "The Woman Who Lives 200,000 Years in the Past". 2 April 2020.
  4. ^ a b Bowles, Nellie (5 March 2020). "How to Prepare Now for the Complete End of the World". The New York Times.
  5. ^ "Methow Valley's Lynx Vilden Finds Solace in Prehistoric Practices". 28 August 2015.
  6. ^ "Living primitively". The Week. 13 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Living Wild".
  8. ^ Dowling, Tim (26 October 2016). "Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild review – still Channel 5's most thoughtful programme". The Guardian.
  9. ^ "Surviving The Stone Age – Adventure To The Wild". 24 November 2020.