Lynx Vilden Explained

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.

Off-grid living

Since 1991, Vilden has both practiced and taught wild-living skills.^{[3] [4]} 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.^[5] In them, participants learn how to make shoes, hunting tools, shelters and how to start fires.^{[5] [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]

Notes and References

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