Purposes:

• warmth
• cooking
• protection from insects and wild animals
• morale

Ingredients:

• heat
• oxygen
• fuel

Fuel types:

• tinder
• kindling
• main fuel

Ray Mears - the master at work using a firesteel and birch bark.


An excellent tutorial on firelighting.
Note that this chap does NOT promote the next-to-useless tipi method.

How to start a fire with the traditional flint, steel and charcloth method.
This chap has produced a series of online tutorials here http://www.azbushcraft.com

How to make charcloth.


Using a Cramp Ball fungus as tinder.