You don't have to worry! Just by knowing the possible hazards and how to avoid them, you can avoid the close-calls I've had.  My carelessness of the past can benefit you.

   I came close to death many times in the wilderness due to pure ignorance.  In my bullet-proof-youth, I recall falling through ice up to my waist into the water.  Yet I continued to play until I began to feel warm and cozy (wondering why I couldn't feel my legs). I could tell you about swimming in a magical lagoon in Australia, unaware crocodiles were perched on shore watching me until some locals started screaming at me. Or how about the time my sailboat sailed away without me after falling overboard, alone, without a life jacket!  Or the time I was so hypothermic I convinced myself I would feel better if I just laid down in the snow and took a nap! I wandered all the way back to camp for an unknown reason (possibly with an unknown angel working overtime). Or the time I tried to ride a wild boar in the jungles of Guam (with a pint of rum in me).  Or that issue with the mama hawk on the side of a cliff; or the time I...  OK! (yes, there IS more) So I was an idiot -- a very lucky idiot.