International survival expert to lead PEEC workshop

LEHMAN TOWNSHIP, PA — The Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC) will host a primitive survival workshop with survival expert Ivan Erchak from Friday, September 21-through Sunday, September 23.

During PEEC’s survival weekend, participants will learn basic and advanced wilderness survival techniques such as rope making, tracking, fire by friction and percussion, water purification, tool making and more.

Erchak is the head instructor at the Ndakinna Education Center located in Greenfield Center, NY. He has an extensive background in advanced tracking and wilderness survival and has traveled to many regions of the world such as Tanzania, South America, Morocco and Alaska to expand his survival skills. Erchak also spent a month living and tracking with the ju’hoansi people (bushmen) of Namibia. He has been featured on various survival shows and even worked with Court TV filming episodes of “The Chase: Trackdown.” For more information on Erchak and the Ndakinna Wilderness Project, visit ndakinnacenter.org.

This intense survival workshop is open for all skill levels, ages 12 years and up. The cost is $184 for PEEC members and $199 for non-members, and includes lodging Friday and Saturday night in a PEEC cabin, all meals (Friday dinner through Sunday lunch) and the program. Participants can also choose to attend the workshop with no lodging, for $124 for PEEC members and $139 for non-members. Preregistration is required.

For more information call 570/828-2319.